piglet

Example Sentences

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Today, that piglet is Tucker—a 200-pound porker who has outgrown the family bathroom, shredded a couch and required the installation of heavy-duty horse panels to keep him from escaping the yard of his Arizona home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Mummy and Daddy Pig will introduce the idea of the pending piglet in the Season 10 episode airing March 31.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

The boar, named Rillette, was found in 2023 as a piglet by Elodie Cappé on her horse-breeding smallholding in Chaource, central France, after apparently been abandoned by its mother.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

The phrase “Balls to the Walz” was everywhere, as were pictures of the Minnesota governor nestling a piglet in his arms with a beaming smile.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2024

“Alice has been talking to this pig for months, and she wasn’t a piglet when they met. Maybe we’re just not on their course.”

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George