How to Use swine in a Sentence

swine

noun
Definition of swinenext
Synonyms for swinenext
  • Most of the time, having feral swine around is a bad thing for hunters.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Culling swine is one of the main ways officials hope to curb the disease.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2019
  • The sea swine, for instance, had four dragon’s feet and an eye in its navel.
    — Tom Fort, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • In the show arena, there will be the Junior Fair swine show, dog show, open beef show and more.
    — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 26 July 2021
  • Also check out the Baja taco, left, or steak and swine taco.
    — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 27 June 2018
  • The men are enticed into the house by Circe’s singing and turned into swine.
    — Martin Aitken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Copper, row crops and swine are still around their highest prices in years.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • By law, swine that are trapped in Alabama must be killed on site.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 15 May 2022
  • What better time for a little movie about a man, a swine and the unbearable weight of grief?
    — Sara Stewart, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Weak demand overseas and at home has prices for U.S. swine locked in a decline.
    — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The rise of the feral hog has been a steady process with inbreeding of various breeds of swine.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In the country’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, nine people have died of swine fule since Feb. 1.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Logan is Circe, turning sailors to swine—speaks to their power.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019
  • But in recent days, players have noticed that the swine that greets them now touts a golden crown.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • The people who were sickened, who ranged from 2- to 43-years-old, had contact with cattle, swine, goats and sheep.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The death toll may be up to 10, which leaves eight or nine of the famous swine remaining—only a handful of which are adults.
    — Delaney Chambers, National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2017
  • Nestled in the lower left corner was Hog Island, its northern edge curved like the back of a great swine.
    — David Garczynski, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The more recent swine flu, while less fatal, has been traced back to pigs raised for food in North America.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • Thomson said hundreds of swine were stolen from a hog farm over a period of time last year — a crime that hasn’t been solved.
    — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Minnesota is among the states trying to prevent the swine from taking hold.
    — CBS News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Johnson says the idea for the series came to her while suffering through the 2010 swine flu pandemic.
    — Jeremy Henderson, AL.com, 23 May 2017
  • The country only imported about $10 million of swine from the U.S. last year.
    — Benjamin Parkin, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Jacob Rand, of Reservoir High School, earned the swine grand championship last year.
    — Susan Soldavin, Howard County Times, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Among those is a program to gun down pigs from helicopters as the swine scurry through open marshes and fields.
    — Sammy Fretwell, charlotteobserver, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The partnership’s first project gathers gas in Utah’s Escalante Desert from 26 swine farms.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Many species of truffles attract a range of animals, but the ones that humans like to eat evolved to attract swine.
    — Eugenia Bone, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • As prices soar, the government is trying to induce farmers to raise more swine.
    — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The swine have proven themselves to be formidable foes.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • While Indiana used to have a big feral swine problem, there currently are no known populations in the state at this time.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • Those swine trials that Macchiarini claimed were completed?
    — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023

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