the frat house was a pigsty the morning after the bacchanal
Recent Examples on the WebJames Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become.—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024 Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties.—Haiyun Ma, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2023 Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty.—Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024 The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour.—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 Seeing Flora’s mangled dress in a pigsty corner sends a shudder through Joanie.—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021 Bussi is unshaven and slovenly, living in a pigsty apartment and driving a Pontiac.—Jay Weissberg, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021 It was partially destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, later rebuilt, at some point secularized and over the centuries also served as a barn, a distillery and a pigsty, the John Cage Organ Project said on its website.—Kirsten Grieshaber and Markus Schreiber, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
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