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sty

[stahy] / staɪ /
NOUN
den
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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

“Once I jumped in that sty," he said, "I was going to be stuck wrestling in there for a while.”

From Washington Post Dec. 20, 2018

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

And—this the point I was cornin’ to—when I went back in the house a big sty come on my eye.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

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

Very soon, the meadows were full of milking cows and the sties were full of pigs and the chicken-run was full of chickens.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

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 Hakluyt, Richard

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 Brown, Goold




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