sty

Example Sentences

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Three piglets on the loose from an abandoned sty were foraging in the city street.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022

“Water is sour, the air is lonely here / And all the noises of this natural shire / From stable or from sty are not enough,” Mr. Howard wrote in one poem.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022

They stashed him away in a pig sty, but it kept him alive, as enemy soldiers continued their search for Americans.

From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2018

Otherwise, you might as well join the rest of them in the sty!

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2017

Now she decorating her brother with it like he a pig in a sty and I see that old disgust Miss Leefolt got for her own daughter.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett