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Meanings of stye in English
Synonyms
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
STYE (HORDEOLUM).-Thisis a swelling beginning in a gland or glands at the edge of the lid and pus forms finally.
1
One patient in the lanolin eye ointment group had an eye infection.
2
Quinonez barely ate during her ordeal and picked up an eye infection.
3
Shingles and its tendency to lead to serious eye infection and double vision.
4
These days Tobias has lost the face-paint -it eventually gave him an eye infection.
5
My eye infection had worsened, and I could barely see out of my right eye.
Usage of stye in English
1
That cursed reek of yours would kill a hog of the stye.
2
Here is an attempt to be rid of a stye in the eye.
3
To the watchers by the stye the moments seemed intolerable.
4
You'd be better in the stye along with the pigs!
5
Conventional remedy: What you describe sounds like a stye.
6
As they approached the stye, Harry turned away his head with a look of disgust.
7
If I want the pig, I'll search his stye.
8
Beside her stood the man with the stye, yawning.
9
The bread was thrown deftly and unostentatiously into the stye, but Hyacinth saw through the manœuvre.
10
Hyacinth wriggled back, and sent a short ladder down through the window of the inner stye.
11
You notice how sweet it keeps the stye.
12
He went nearer and nearer to the stye.
13
He ought to have been at home safe in his stye, and not wandering about the hills.
14
A pasty youth with a stye and a stammer told me Appius Priscillus had received my messages.
15
When it does not reach the pus stage, it often leaves a hard swelling (blind stye).
16
Two families were already established in the place of one, and the house was already like unto a stye.
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Stye through the time