sty
IPA: stˈaɪ
noun
- A pen or enclosure for swine.
- (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
- (Britain, dialectal) A ladder.
- (pathology) An inflammation of the eyelid.
verb
- To place in, or as if in, a sty
- To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place
- (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb.
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Examples of "sty" in Sentences
- Does the writer delicately hesitate to call a sty a sty, or has the internment of the food-hog really begun?
- In the room over the sty is a bin which must be filled with the fallen apples before any nuts can be gathered. "
- “You'd think some of these families lived in a pig sty,” he says as he pokes at a discarded orange rind using a stick with a nail embedded in one end.
- In the last CNN debate, Newt Gingrich announced that he was interested in debating President Barack Obama in seven, three-hour long debates in the sty...
- That bit of our heritage was a brazen statement about the promise, and the pig sty, that is democracy - that only a completely open society, tolerant of all views, would thrive.
- Thor, your whole "I'm too erudite to wallow in the sty of mediocrity with the rest of you pigs because I read * serious* books in third grade" schtick is seriously underwhelming me here.
- In addition to recording the pig's life, Herbert used parts of the animal to make musical instruments, such as a drum made from the pig's skin, a musical pig sty, and a wind instrument that uses the pig's blood.
- Reply to this dominic the chinese government is a corrupt pig sty we can face the thought of animals going extinct but to say that the chinese overnment is litterealy driving the uyguhrs to extinction is sickening.
- He kept a pig, and was wont to boast that he possessed the highest pigsty and the lowest barn in the country, because the sty was a structure of his own erection, in the old brick tower, above the level of the surrounding ground; while his straw was stored in an excavation (still existing) several feet below.
- Blepharitis is inflammation of the edges of the eyelids; conjunctivitis is inflammation of the membrane that lines the eyelids and connects to the eyeball; iritis is inflammation of the iris; scleritis is inflammation of the white part of the eyeball, uveitis is inflammation of the pigmented inner parts of the eye; a sty is an inflammation of an oil-secreting gland on or near the edge of an eyelid; a chalazion is a small, hard tumor that forms on the edge of an eyelid.
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