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Meanings of pigsty (pigsties) in English
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Examples for "sty"
Examples for "sty"
1
Then she opened the doors of the sty and waved her wand.
2
I'd rather sleep in a sty than stay in this stinking place.
3
Two boys were approaching the sty, respect and caution in every step.
4
The tent was a mere gipsy hovel, like a sty for pigs.
5
What chance had a young life in such a sty of filth?
1
And he did not want to be dragged back to the pigpen.
2
He grabbed the frame to keep from falling into the pigpen himself.
3
In the pigpen, two sows poked their flat snouts through the bars.
4
The truck, driven by Mr. Arable, crawled slowly back to the pigpen.
5
It's just that the rock-biz, then as now, is a miserable pigpen.
1
A farm with a grain mill and piggery occupied a far parcel.
2
And somebody came sniffing and snuffing around the corner of the piggery.
3
Night found Grunty Pig huddled close to the outside of the piggery.
4
It was the fourth fire at the piggery in the last decade.
5
You'll see a queer place; the piggery that old fellow lives in!
Usage of pigsties in English
1
Last time I passed through I noticed some pigsties up against the palace wall.
2
Outside is a barn, five pigsties and a granite well.
3
Owing to these fresh boots we were spared the pigsties.
4
We don't talk to people in Threadneedle Street about nothing but turnips and pigsties.
5
His model pigsties and cottages were unpopular, but he loved his animals and understood them.
6
I saw beyond me a few farm-buildings, a byre, several pigsties, and three disused waggons.
7
A young brother, a novice, was busy, with his frock hitched up, cleaning out the pigsties.
8
Who else would think about the pigsties?
9
I heard a shilling a week spoken of as rent for these abominable pigsties, collected every Saturday night.
10
Under this barn, which was used mainly for sheep and young cattle, there were several pigsties, now empty.
11
The last work was the building of pigsties-rudeindeed and made of a few slabs-butsufficient to answer the purpose.
12
Usually there are one or two curious beehive-like structures in these villages, used here, it is said, as pigsties or storehouses.
13
Their studio was a cowshed (later replaced by a row of converted pigsties) on Firmin's farm near Canterbury, in Kent.
14
We may not build such grand and imposing structures, but we do not let our children grow up in pigsties, he thought.
15
They found him hiding in a tanner's shop amid the flayed hides and they chased his army through the pigsties and gardens.
16
The hot scent of the trees and the garden mingled with the smell of manure, pigsties, cooking pig-wash and Vessons' 'Tom Moody' tobacco.
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