sty
Example Sentences
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The place was a sty to begin with and only becomes more squalid after Mick, Keith and Brian move in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Three piglets on the loose from an abandoned sty were foraging in the city street.
From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022
“Once I jumped in that sty," he said, "I was going to be stuck wrestling in there for a while.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2018
Irons glides smoothly over a barrage of judgments in “Marina,” “Death” being embodied in “Those who sit in the sty of contentment” and in “Those who suffer the ecstasy of the animals.”
From New York Times • May 17, 2018
And—this the point I was cornin’ to—when I went back in the house a big sty come on my eye.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing sty
Scrabble: Words with no Vowels
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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