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Recent Examples of pigsty 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigsty
Noun
  • Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.
    Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.
    Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
Noun
  • Thanksgiving Day will bring a mess of rain for the I-95 corridor from Florida to Maine, and heavy snow for the interior Northeast and New England.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Those drips and drops will dry out to become an ooey, gooey, stuck-on mess that is much harder to clean.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • No pigpen-cleanup required!
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2021
  • If the Hogs couldn’t win the day in their pigpen, with Bryce Young sidelined since the second quarter with a sprained shoulder, after scoring 23 straight points in the midst of a rare, extended Alabama meltdown, will this ridiculous streak ever end?
    Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.com, al, 2 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • The designation will bring international recognition to the sties, which aren’t well known even to many Ohioans.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
  • We're admittedly smitten with this stage-to-sty story, which is apparently a sequel.
    Country Living, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • This manual process is ridden with security holes and manual mistakes.
    Manosiz Bhattacharyya, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • After stitching the sac, the surgeon may also use stitches or mesh to close a hole in the abdominal wall (called a hernia repair).19 Varicocele repair (varicocelectomy) involves an incision in the groin or lower abdomen to access the varicocele.
    Josephine Hessert, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Armstrong thinking Vegas is a total hellhole of a city hasn’t stopped him from showing up for the Green Day fans there.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The 11-foot-tall bronze sculpture of the hero of a 1987 movie that made Detroit look like a flaming hellhole is on its back in a building somewhere within the 24-acre footprint of Eastern Market.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024

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“Pigsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigsty. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.

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