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

In the absence of help, nearly anyone with baby twins has a pigsty of a house.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 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

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

Her sons had nailed plywood sheets to the windows and along the front of her house, so that the only way in was the back door leading to the latrine, barn, and pigsty.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago