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[ US /ˈpɪɡˌstaɪ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪɡsta‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a pen for swine

How To Use pigsty In A Sentence

  • Thus Bridget descends by parachute into a pigsty full of excrement, struggles hopelessly on skis, and gets drenched by passing London lorries.
  • Bernarda had arrived in Barcelona shortly after the war, fleeing from poverty and from a father who on a good day would beat her up and tell her she was stupid, ugly, and a slut, and on a bad one would corner her in the pigsty, drunk, and fondle her until she sobbed with terror - at which point he'd let her go, calling her prudish and stuck up, like her mother. The Shadow of the Wind
  • It's a bit like saying you continue to live in a pigsty because no one comes to visit your house.
  • You aver there are ancient slates... on an ancient pigsty at Penbrook Farm. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • The Freaney family lived in a three-bedroom terrace house in Salop Street, Penarth, which Mr Rees described as a "pigsty". WalesOnline - Home
  • I think I see you — for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences — I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best. Lay Morals
  • You aver there are ancient slates... on an ancient pigsty at Penbrook Farm. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • There were ducks in the duck pond and pigs in the pigsty and he loved the look of it.
  • a nasty pigsty of a room
  • Then, he refers to the Holbrooks as animals and to their house as a pigsty.
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