pigsty
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There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
The place is a pigsty, my wife constantly complains, and when I try to help out with the twins she bites my head off.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2022
He had a shattered leg, so was carried and dragged across a field by Pte O'Callaghan, who swerved to avoid a barn full of SS soldiers cooking a meal, until they found a pigsty.
From BBC ● May 28, 2022
By then, he had grown increasingly frustrated by his reception in Britain, where he said that offering up his work to drama critics was like “rolling a Fabergé egg under a pigsty door.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Otis Akkerson got thrown from his horse and ended up facedown in Mr. Cybulskis’s pigsty?
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Bats that were fleeing this human-caused disaster roosted above pigsties in Malaysia.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023
Some farmers supplemented their income with fruit orchards, planting trees next to open-air pigsties — perfect flying fox buffets.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
Mattila sat in pigsties and chicken coops to confirm that honey bees were landing in poop.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 9, 2020
As bats foraged among the farms’ trees, saliva-soaked pieces of fruit would have fallen into the pigsties, providing the pigs with irresistible morsels and repeated doses of the virus.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
They passed several pigsties, mules nibbling quietly on bits of hay, even some guinea fowl.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
