How to Use piglet in a Sentence

piglet

noun

• But boars, sows and piglets have been spotted up and down the road.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Piglets will race around a track to squeal their way to the finish line.
  — Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 17 July 2017
• Rustle up the kids to see piglets, chicks, lambs and more kids (the goat kind) at these three farm trail stops.
  — David Ferry, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
• Hanging out with swans and adorable piglets in a lush garden.
  — Meagan Fredette, Teen Vogue, 22 May 2019
• For all the things the Detroit Red Wings are doing well, their piggy bank is a piglet.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2021
• There, piglets and tiger cubs are put together in cages.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
• In the long-running event at the fair, youngsters chased and tried to capture piglets weighing 40 to 60 pounds.
  — USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
• The farm can now proceed with its plans to breed Ethel, promising the first piglet will be named Laura.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 13 Nov. 2020
• Inside, the air is filled with the sound of snorting, grunting, squealing pigs and piglets.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
• On a farm stay, guests might have the option to stargaze, enjoy outdoor sports, or see piglets birthed.
  — Liz Tracy, Vox, 11 July 2019
• For days everyone eats sausages, and the streets are filled with the cries of newborn piglets, the makings of Christmas sausages to come.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• Reaching into a pen, the group’s leader helps to free one squealing piglet whose foot is caught in the grate.
  — Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
• The local hunter has been told not to shoot the piglet – nicknamed Frieda – and in winter Stapel plans to put it in the shed with the mother cows.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
• The cloned embryos were then implanted in a sow that gave birth to piglets with the genetic changes.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Sometimes an inmate has to stay up all night tending a sick piglet or calf.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• The images are a crisp black-and-white, each downy strand of fuzz on each piglet rendered hyper-real and sharp.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• But what if a piglet not only sees but understands what the farmer has done to his momma?
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• Rey sits with some piglet-like young creatures and watches a puppet show.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
• The piglet reacts to Cromwell's song by squealing, then lying on Cromwell's lap and falling asleep.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
• Gunda, the mother pig of the title, cares for her adorably fuzzy and tussling newborn piglets.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• Tiny piglets covered in birth fluid and blood stumble around on the metal grate floors.
  — Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
• Afterward, Blatt chose eight-grade teacher Kyle McLaren to also plant a kiss on the piglet.
  — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Lake County News-Sun, 21 Apr. 2018
• In keeping with Cromwell's beloved 1995 film about a piglet who learns to herd sheep, the little fella has been christened Babe.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Squealing newborn piglets were passed around to hold for photo ops.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• The bystander asked for, and was granted custody of, the piglet, Dorson said in a social media post.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• But—spoiler alert—the piglet and pup hit it off surprisingly well.
  — Rori Kotch, Country Living, 16 July 2015
• Five-week-old piglets take a speedy lap around a mini racetrack for the reward of an Oreo cookie at the finish line.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
• Slices of piglet stuffed with herbs and slowly cooked on the spit are bound in a delicate chestnut crepe that’s topped with raw onions and lime — a racy foil to the rich pork.
  — Washington Post, 18 May 2022
• The video then switched to Emme giggling while holding some piglets before the camera turned to Max sitting down with a friend for some food.
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
• And those piglets reach breeding age in only two years, so the problem is only going to get worse.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024