How To Use Pigsty In A Sentence
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Thus Bridget descends by parachute into a pigsty full of excrement, struggles hopelessly on skis, and gets drenched by passing London lorries.
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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
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It's a bit like saying you continue to live in a pigsty because no one comes to visit your house.
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You aver there are ancient slates... on an ancient pigsty at Penbrook Farm.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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The Freaney family lived in a three-bedroom terrace house in Salop Street, Penarth, which Mr Rees described as a "pigsty".
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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
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You aver there are ancient slates... on an ancient pigsty at Penbrook Farm.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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There were ducks in the duck pond and pigs in the pigsty and he loved the look of it.
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a nasty pigsty of a room
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Then, he refers to the Holbrooks as animals and to their house as a pigsty.
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The sunlight dripped through the open window, casting its golden rays over the pigsty.
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I smacked him in the head and went hunting for some clothes to wear in the junk-infested pigsty he called his room.
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Maybe she could move in with her brother, but remembering what a pigsty her brother's house is, she knew she'd be left to pick up after his mess.
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The house was a pigsty, as usual.
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He makes a pigsty of the kitchen whenever he does the cooking.
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Yes, happily, the pigsty was at the end of the wood-house, and could be reached under cover.
The Peterkin Papers
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It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
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Fussy Felix is a neat-freak whose wife has just thrown him out of their house, and Oscar is a placid slob who has wallowed in his pigsty apartment ever since his divorce.
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You aver there are ancient slates... on an ancient pigsty at Penbrook Farm.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Their house is a virtual pigsty of junk, either for sale or as part of Fred's personal collection.
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I missed my pigsty of a room, the drone of football practice after school, and everything else that had, before, made my life a living nightmare.
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It was built by squire John Walter Barry in 1883 as a pigsty for his two sows.
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For the third time within a month, Stalybridge and Hyde MP and Cabinet Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions, James Purnell has been yet again caught abusing the Parliamentary expenses by claiming £10,143 more for his rent on his London home which he left like a "pigsty".
Purnell Pockets £10k
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If you want to live in a pigsty then don't do anything with your house, but if you want to make it nice for yourself you get penalised.
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He kept a pig, and was wont to boast that he possessed the highest pigsty and the lowest barn in the country, because the sty was a structure of his own erection, in the old brick tower, above the level of the surrounding ground; while his straw was stored in an excavation (still existing) several feet below.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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The house was a pigsty and we tried to do all we could to make things better.
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Honestly, this room's a pigsty!
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Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
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Apparently, what my uncle's group had thought was something fairly high powered for the 12th century, and had evidence of metalworking, was in fact a pigsty.
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Get all these dirty dishes away! The place is like a pigsty!
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as filthy as a pigsty
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Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
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Rubbing my eyes, I tossed on a T-shirt that was about three sizes too big and a pair of cargo capris, pulling my hair into a ragged ponytail as I left my pigsty of a room.
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My room was like a pigsty, to put it frankly.
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The hungry tiger saw a big pig digging in the pigsty.
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He likes to be organised - ‘the boys tease me about it, but it helps’ - and his peg is a picture of neatness next to Ricky Ponting's pigsty in the dressing room.
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The accolade meant the impressive cascade had come a long way since the site was used as a pigsty during the Second World War.
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She had good eyes, even if her grandfather didn't, and she wasn't going to work and study in a pigsty.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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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.
Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
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We lived in a one-room bedsit, shared a kitchen, had no bathroom and used an outdoor earth closet adjoining the pigsty.
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Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
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The sheep-barn and the pigsty were empty, but intact.
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I pished, sucking air through my teeth, chacking and tutting, and a bluethroat appeared from behind a pigsty, a beautiful sort-of-redstart for me, almost equally good, its next year’s blue intimated in its delicate pinpricked necklace.
A Year on the Wing
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When we arrived at the pigsty it was a different sight altogether.
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Tons of work to do and my house is turning into a pigsty.
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The show's power, though, came from the unending tango between the socially aspirant Harold, desperate to escape the ancestral pigsty, marry a nice girl and eat with matching knives and forks; and the calculating old man clinging on, needy and wheedling, that feral gurn switching between rabid contempt and wide-eyed horror of loneliness.
Who's the daddy?: the greatest sitcom fathers
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I'm a terrible mess and create a pigsty wherever I go.
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Of course, this doesn't mean you should heed their every command, but if they tell you to clean up the "pigsty" - i.e. your room, it wouldn't hurt.
Cube Rules
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It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
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‘Have fun cleaning your dump,’ laughed Treena knowing what a pigsty Pheobe's room usually is.
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Top of my priority list for the spring is the transformation of an ugly garden shed originally built as a pigsty.
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Marie had insisted on tidying up Dylan's room, she said that it was worse than a pigsty.
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We lived in a one-room bedsit, shared a kitchen, had no bathroom and used an outdoor earth closet adjoining the pigsty.
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Personally, and you can call me naively optimistic, but I'm disappointed he made it back into his "pigsty" of a constituency.
The grannie's on...
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Not that my place is a pigsty but putting things away that have lingered on tables for a little while is a necessity I feel for a number of guests like this.
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He has been blotting his copy book again, this time by his pigsty habits in his digs.
GOODBYE CURATE
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These cottages are in themselves as ugly as possible, resembling a large kind of pigsty; but often, by dint of the verdure on their thatch and the shrubbery clustering about them, they look picturesque.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
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It's literally falling apart, it's an absolute pigsty, and it just reeks with the smell of rotting beer.
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It treads a fine line between being a traditional boozer and a downright dirty pigsty.
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On their journey back with the clock, their van is hijacked and the lads are locked in a pigsty.
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But they didn't know what was frowned upon by society, obviously, because they're house was a pigsty.
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You aver there are ancient slates... on an ancient pigsty at Penbrook Farm.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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One school in Jiuting Town of Songjiang District was formerly a pigsty.
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He said the house was a pigsty, the biggest mess ever.