Examples of pigsty in a Sentence
the frat house was a pigsty the morning after the bacchanal
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Regard your property as an investment in a pigsty, and visitors will treat it thus.
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
And the ungrateful pig got a solid slap from the pigsty owners.
—Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
The millions of gallons of waste that the pigs generated each year stank horribly and polluted the air and water, turning an otherwise pleasant town into a pigsty.
—Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
James Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties.
—Haiyun Ma, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2023
Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Seeing Flora’s mangled dress in a pigsty corner sends a shudder through Joanie.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
And the ungrateful pig got a solid slap from the pigsty owners.
—Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
The millions of gallons of waste that the pigs generated each year stank horribly and polluted the air and water, turning an otherwise pleasant town into a pigsty.
—Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
James Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties.
—Haiyun Ma, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2023
Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Seeing Flora’s mangled dress in a pigsty corner sends a shudder through Joanie.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
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“Pigsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pigsty. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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