PIGSTY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for PIGSTY, such as:

1. And then I can come home and clean this horrid pigsty.
2. I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty.
3. There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.
4. They had come to America years before, after the discovery of a small arsenal of rifles buried under the O'Hara pigsty.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIGSTY
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pigsty
 n.  shelter where pigs are kept; pigpen; dirty or very untidy place
Classic Sentence:
1  He had a dirty little room close by the pigsty; and there he sat the whole day, and worked.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SWINEHERD
2  There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
3  The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  They had come to America years before, after the discovery of a small arsenal of rifles buried under the O'Hara pigsty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  And then I can come home and clean this horrid pigsty.