Examples of pigsty in a Sentence
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Seeing Flora’s mangled dress in a pigsty corner sends a shudder through Joanie.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
Bussi is unshaven and slovenly, living in a pigsty apartment and driving a Pontiac.
—Jay Weissberg, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021
It was partially destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, later rebuilt, at some point secularized and over the centuries also served as a barn, a distillery and a pigsty, the John Cage Organ Project said on its website.
—Kirsten Grieshaber and Markus Schreiber, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
Bussi is unshaven and slovenly, living in a pigsty apartment and driving a Pontiac.
—Jay Weissberg, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021
It was partially destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, later rebuilt, at some point secularized and over the centuries also served as a barn, a distillery and a pigsty, the John Cage Organ Project said on its website.
—Kirsten Grieshaber and Markus Schreiber, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
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First Known Use
1580, in the meaning defined above
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“Pigsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pigsty. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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