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

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

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