pigsty

Example Sentences

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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

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

I don’t know what to do, and I can’t just “let it go” because no one should live in a pigsty, and I’d hate for her whole house to be like this when she’s older.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2021

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

A new pigsty was building far from the house and downwind, with chicken and duck runs near and a kennel for the dogs to keep the coyotes away.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck