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  • noun Plural form of pigsty.

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Examples

  • I put up with it, but I immediately pulled down the cow barn, the pigsties, the chicken houses, everything -- made a clean sweep.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • Their studio was a cowshed (later replaced by a row of converted pigsties) on Firmin's farm near Canterbury, in Kent.

    Goodbye, Oliver Postgate Heather McDougal 2008

  • Nine-tenths of the rest rooms in this country are pigsties, and nowadays gas stations are putting in locks so you have to pay to use them.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

  • Levida grabs a sledgehammer and starts hammering away at the old pigsties.

    Take Me There Carolee Dean 2010

  • Never mind that in medieval days, the city streets were a sea of mud and raw sewage, that disease-carrying rats ran rampant, pigsties fronted nearly every home, and the city walls existed for a purpose beyond protection of the empire from foreign invasion.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • Their studio was a cowshed (later replaced by a row of converted pigsties) on Firmin's farm near Canterbury, in Kent.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Levida grabs a sledgehammer and starts hammering away at the old pigsties.

    Take Me There Carolee Dean 2010

  • Levida grabs a sledgehammer and starts hammering away at the old pigsties.

    Take Me There Carolee Dean 2010

  • Nine-tenths of the rest rooms in this country are pigsties, and nowadays gas stations are putting in locks so you have to pay to use them.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

  • Nine-tenths of the rest rooms in this country are pigsties, and nowadays gas stations are putting in locks so you have to pay to use them.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

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