Sentence examples for pigpen from inspiring English sources

The word "pigpen" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a pen in which pigs are kept. For example, "The farmer had to clean out the pigpen every day."

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pigpen

noun

A pigsty; an enclosure where pigs are kept.

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Bewitched by the patter of a perfume merchant, entranced by the pink and gold of these scented flasks, he steals some of the rejected bottles and hides them in the pigpen.

Hog house, also called pigpen, building for housing swine, particularly one with facilities for housing a number of hogs under one roof.

Alongside Lesh and Garcia were the young pop-rocker Bobby "Ace" Weir and blues singer/organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, their freewheeling collusions riding the polyrhythmic momentum provided by drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart.

Housekeeping and child rearing had never been Kandi Nissen's strong suits; her children ran free and the house was a pigpen of dirty dishes, unemptied waste-baskets, and moldy French fries stuck on couches, but it was a place where Teena could stay.

Across the field, past the barn and the empty pigpen, past the house with its snow-packed porch, stood a smokehouse.

Wishing to restore peace to his pigpen, the Sampler lassos Kris's pig and Jeff's pig in order to separate them from their piglets, and then drops their young into a river in a burlap sack — thereby panicking and enraging Kris's pig, Jeff's pig, Kris, and Jeff.

He was disorganized, and incorrigibly messy: he was Pigpen in the kitchen.

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In fact the forts at Hatteras Inlet were hardly worthy of the name, more like "pigpens than bastions," in one historian's judgment.

In the long run, China's move from backyard pigpens to huge industrial farms like Jiahua Pig Breeding, which benefit from economies of scale and more stable production plans, could help calm volatile boom-bust pork cycles and bring inflation more under control.

At one stretch it doubles as the north end of some farmers' pigpens and chicken coops.

Take a look at the guy: all crags and rasps, grizzled and gravelly; white hair, cold, sky-blue eyes, a face like Monument Valley, that Mitchum-esque barrel chest; that pinch of Ward Bond's ferocity, always trailing a Pigpen-dustcloud of waywardness and notoriety, alcoholic and narcotic excess, rehab and recidivism.

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