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Example sentences for "pigsty"

Lexicographically close words:
pignut; pigpen; pigs; pigskin; pigsties; pigtail; pigtailed; pigtails; piis; pika
  1. I crept out of the pigsty and went home again, leading my injured bicycle.

  2. Did she by any chance force her way into the pigsty and find the Anti-Cat?

  3. The first moment he was able to join his coreligionists, instead of welcoming him with open arms, they threw him into a pigsty with swine for company.

  4. To breathe is to inhale the air of barracks, prison, brothel, and pigsty all in one.

  5. All right," came with threefold solemnity from the roof, and a moment later a short ladder had been laboriously pushed across to Octavian, who lost no time in propping it against the low pigsty wall.

  6. Octavian scrambled hastily over the pigsty wall to her rescue, and at once found himself in a quagmire that engulfed his feet.

  7. Not only was the schoolmaster profoundly grateful for having his attention drawn to the matter—and the pigsty really was better ever after—but he expressed his gratitude in the most effusive terms.

  8. When I got to the pigsty there were several early callers lounging around.

  9. Hughie was escorted to the pigsty with his blanket and candle.

  10. A haystack in summer and a pigsty in winter sufficed him.

  11. What Jamie saw on the way to the pigsty made the perspiration stand in big beads on his furrowed brow.

  12. Without waiting for an answer he opened the door of the pigsty and peeped in.

  13. This was the first one, and I remember it well, because I found in the morning that it had lifted the thatch of my pigsty into the widow's garden as clean as a boy's kite.

  14. A little apart in the main avenue of Rotoava, in a low hut of leaves that opened on a small enclosure, like a pigsty on a pen, an old man dwelt solitary with his aged wife.

  15. One of my earliest recollections is of extemporizing out of the pigsty one of the most familiar institutions in our town--a pawn shop.

  16. There was a pigsty at the end of our alley against the gable of our house; but we never were rich enough to own a pig.

  17. He has an idea an artist can sleep in a palace one night and a pigsty the next, and rejoice.

  18. Of course, the pigsty is a little bit extreme.

  19. Next to this is the swill-room and pigsty for the house pigs, as described in the last design; and over it a loft for farm seeds, small grains, and any other storage required.

  20. As the shed roof shuts down on to the pigsty and stables, no loft above them is necessary.

  21. I shall have to go into the pigsty with him!

  22. But just as she reached the pigsty she heard a loud bray, which was Brownie's way of saying "A Merry Christmas" to his friends.

  23. I dare say you won't believe me, it seems a bit tall even to me, but the wind had lifted the thatch of my pigsty into the widow's garden a second time.

  24. This was the first one, and I remember it very well, because I found in the morning that it had lifted the thatch of my pigsty into the widow's garden as clean as a boy's kite.

  25. In the morning we were able to measure the strength of the storm, and over and above my pigsty there was damage enough wrought in the village to keep us busy.

  26. And when I took the blacks from the castellan, who was putting the knights' horses into my stable, and asked where my animals were to go, he showed me a pigsty built of laths and boards against the castle wall.

  27. You mean," interrupted Kohlhaas, "that it was such a poor shelter for horses that it was more like a pigsty than a stable?

  28. On the broken sod walls of the old pigsty chick-weeds flourished, and ice-plants lifted heir transparent leaves.

  29. Even the cocks, seen in the light of parting, had a peculiar interest, and he listened with conscious attention while one crowed clear and loud as it stood on the pigsty wall.

  30. He was now close to the house, and leaning over the pigsty wall, in company with Em, who was showing her the pigs, was a strange female figure.

  31. We had left the pigsty and were pacing the paths of the kitchen garden, surveying the depredations of the irrepressible slug.

  32. I had been so distracted with my numerous worries that I had forgotten to make the bed and put away the litter left from all our morning toilets; the place was a perfect pigsty for him to go into.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pigsty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dump; enclosure; hole; hovel; rookery; shambles; slum; stable; tenement