Examples of pig out in a Sentence
one holiday when you're expected to pig out on junk food
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With a string tied around the pig’s hoof, a man tugged the pig out of the truck, using his whole body weight to drag it through the streets.
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Selina Wang, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
These buffets were loss leaders offered by casinos to entice patrons to gamble before or after their pig out.
—Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2022
Senator Joni Ernst and Tom Schatz warned about the return of earmarks: Congress isn’t even waiting to lift the decade-long moratorium on earmarking before starting to pig out.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
Meanwhile, in town, revelers dance in the street to live music and pig out on traditional Cajun and Creole cuisine.
—Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
Your best bet might have been to leave early, take the spouse and the kid to McDonald’s, sit on the hood of your car pigging out in the sunshine, and make a memory.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
Vacationing means chilling out—and for a lot of us, pigging out.
—Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 27 June 2018
Agritourism is pretty popular right now, with farmers trying to add a little extra cash to their corn cribs by inviting the public to the farm to hang out in pumpkin patches, take haunted hay rides, pick apples, pet goats and pig out on pizza.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2017
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Selina Wang, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
These buffets were loss leaders offered by casinos to entice patrons to gamble before or after their pig out.
—Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2022
Senator Joni Ernst and Tom Schatz warned about the return of earmarks: Congress isn’t even waiting to lift the decade-long moratorium on earmarking before starting to pig out.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
Meanwhile, in town, revelers dance in the street to live music and pig out on traditional Cajun and Creole cuisine.
—Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
Your best bet might have been to leave early, take the spouse and the kid to McDonald’s, sit on the hood of your car pigging out in the sunshine, and make a memory.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
Vacationing means chilling out—and for a lot of us, pigging out.
—Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 27 June 2018
Agritourism is pretty popular right now, with farmers trying to add a little extra cash to their corn cribs by inviting the public to the farm to hang out in pumpkin patches, take haunted hay rides, pick apples, pet goats and pig out on pizza.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2017
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First Known Use
1977, in the meaning defined above
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“Pig out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pig%20out. Accessed 9 Dec. 2023.
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pig out
verb
pigged out; pigging out
: to eat greedily
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