Sty is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like stye or infection. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sty in a sentence
Related words
Sty meaning
- A pen or enclosure for swine.
- A messy, dirty or debauched place.
Using Sty
- The main meaning on this page is: A pen or enclosure for swine. | A messy, dirty or debauched place.
- Useful related words include: stye, hordeolum, eye infection, infection.
- In the example corpus, sty often appears in combinations such as: pig sty.
Context around Sty
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sty
- In this selection, "sty" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pig stand out and add context to how "sty" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pig sty than play and billy and sty might not. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sty" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sty
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ronnie O’Sullivan has said he would ‘rather sleep in a pig sty’ than play the Gibraltar Open, which comes to a conclusion on Sunday night. (26 words)
She gave an even more lurid and horrifying description of Robert’s death, telling police that she had heard him calling out to her from the pig sty. (28 words)
Being willig to stab one another to maintain the ruse, Billy and Sty might not be the sharpest knivers in the drawer of shasher villaisn, but are certainly one of the most surprising. (33 words)
Being willig to stab one another to maintain the ruse, Billy and Sty might not be the sharpest knivers in the drawer of shasher villaisn, but are certainly one of the most surprising. (33 words)
She gave an even more lurid and horrifying description of Robert’s death, telling police that she had heard him calling out to her from the pig sty. (28 words)
Ronnie O’Sullivan has said he would ‘rather sleep in a pig sty’ than play the Gibraltar Open, which comes to a conclusion on Sunday night. (26 words)
Example sentences (3)
Being willig to stab one another to maintain the ruse, Billy and Sty might not be the sharpest knivers in the drawer of shasher villaisn, but are certainly one of the most surprising.
She gave an even more lurid and horrifying description of Robert’s death, telling police that she had heard him calling out to her from the pig sty.
Ronnie O’Sullivan has said he would ‘rather sleep in a pig sty’ than play the Gibraltar Open, which comes to a conclusion on Sunday night.
Common combinations with sty
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: