sty
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The place was a sty to begin with and only becomes more squalid after Mick, Keith and Brian move in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Three piglets on the loose from an abandoned sty were foraging in the city street.
From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2022
“Water is sour, the air is lonely here / And all the noises of this natural shire / From stable or from sty are not enough,” Mr. Howard wrote in one poem.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
They stashed him away in a pig sty, but it kept him alive, as enemy soldiers continued their search for Americans.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2018
A red, droppy sty had come out on one of his eyes and he had to cock his head sideways like a bird in order to see.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Many notable NFL draft experts and web sties projected Banks to go either late in the first round or early in the second.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
And if a mask does not fit properly, it may contribute to eye problems, such as dryness and the reddish bumps called sties.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
For that 10-year-old study, the IG selected five states and 10 localities and looked at their ability to create alternative care sties.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2020
As both actor and playwright, Jesse Eisenberg loves rolling in the sties of self-contempt, places where privileged human pigs sniffle and suffer and smear themselves with muck.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2015
Dark hearts of oak he split and trimmed for a high palisade around it, and built twelve sties adjoining in this yard to hold the livestock.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
In Maye, how all those his scholers loking vpon him, he by his owne vertue and mighte, stied vp into the heauens.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt
Examples: "But like the hell hounde thou waxed fall furious, expressing thy malice when thou to honour stied."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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