pigsty

Example Sentences

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In Klong Toey, he met a Catholic nun, Sister Maria Chantavarodom, now 92, who led him through the narrow lanes and joined him in founding the tiny school in a former pigsty.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

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

Their flat is a "pigsty", laughs Rebecca Ratcliffe, cluttered with campaign materials.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2022

She may have gone to the pigsty as a last act of responsibility: she would protect this child as she had protected its father.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston