Sentence examples for good pigs from inspiring English sources

"You don't get good hams without good pigs," he writes — it's his only instruction — and the implication is that, if you don't know what a good pig is, you know enough to find out.

It's a waste of good pig.

"It takes two years," said Mr. Raffalli, "to produce a good pig".

Little Oink tries his best to mess up his room, to be a good pig, but his father remonstrates: "I still see toys in their bin, mister".

There are behind-the-scenes visits to often-closed-to-the-public, family-run enterprises such as Anna's Happy Trotters in the market town of Howden, which won the 2012 Good Pig Award for its outdoor-reared pork; and award-winning Justin Staal's smokehouse in the village of Long Riston, which gives the inside scoop on smoking fish and meat.

They love a good pig's ear.

"The only good pig," one New York Panther told startled white newspapermen, "is a dead pig".

"A good pig that was born and raised in the countryside doesn't look like that man's pigs over there.

"Now they were eating Chinese," she proudly writes, "like good urban pigs".

Economists put the question this way: Is leisure an "inferior good," like pigs' knuckles or subway tokens, which people want less of the more money they have, or is it a "normal good," like steak or private jets, which people will tend to consume more of when they get rich?

They've even now found lead in lipstick - neither good for pigs nor people.