pigsty

Example Sentences

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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

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

"I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends--in the modern world."

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald