pigpen
noun
pigpens
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pluralof pigpen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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More than a decade has passed since the first calves, lambs and piglets were cloned, and yet there are no dairy herds composed of carbon-copy cows, no pigpens filled with identical sows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Assured that it was not and that the patient was responding nicely, she went to see the pigpens outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Townsfolk used blocks of Parthenon marble for doorsteps and pigpens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Overnight Aureliano Segundo became the owner of land and livestock and he barely had time to enlarge his overflowing barns and pigpens.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
