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pigsty

[pig-stahy] / ˈpɪgˌstaɪ /




NOUN
sty
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We’re jazzed and we’re hungry and we can’t face returning to the pigsty that is our Langley Park apartment.

From Washington Post Mar. 22, 2023

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

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

From BBC Mar. 18, 2022

“What are you going to do there anyway, in that pigsty? Live with the animals? It’s filthy there.”

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Some farmers supplemented their income with fruit orchards, planting trees next to open-air pigsties — perfect flying fox buffets.

From Washington Post Oct. 14, 2021

Mattila sat in pigsties and chicken coops to confirm that honey bees were landing in poop.

From Science Magazine Dec. 9, 2020

As bats foraged among the farms’ trees, saliva-soaked pieces of fruit would have fallen into the pigsties, providing the pigs with irresistible morsels and repeated doses of the virus.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2020

As the bats gorged themselves on fruit, they dropped pieces of food from the branches, along with their urine, into the pigsties, where at least one pig is believed to have eaten some.

From Salon May 10, 2020

"You? You couldn't sew a dress fit to clean the pigsties."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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