SWINE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for SWINE, such as:

1. Don't throw pearls to swine.
2. Cast not your pearls before swine.
3. Never cast your pearls before swine.
4. A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
5. slaughtering of cattle, sheep, or swine, or the packing of.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
swine
 n.  any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestic species; pig
Classic Sentence:
1  "And the selfish swine won't give them to either of us," said Tony.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  The men said, behind his back, that he was a swine and a bastard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Now she saw how foolish had been her hope of amicably settling so important a matter, especially with a selfish swine like Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
4  It was only by an effort that one could realize that it was made by animals, that it was the distant lowing of ten thousand cattle, the distant grunting of ten thousand swine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  slaughtering of cattle, sheep, or swine, or the packing of.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  made of all swine products exported to countries requiring.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  I have to attend swine for other people to eat, while he, if he yet lives to see the light of day, is starving in some distant land.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIV
9  I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
10  The matter was of consequence, for great part of the domestic wealth of the Saxon proprietors consisted in numerous herds of swine, especially in forest-land, where those animals easily found their food.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  And they lie all tumbled about on the green, like the crab-apples that you shake down to your swine.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  Therewith she sends his company on the shore twenty bulls, an hundred great bristly-backed swine, an hundred fat lambs and their mothers with them, gifts of the day's gladness.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
13  Around are slain in sacrifice oxen many in number, and bristly swine and cattle gathered out of all the country are slaughtered over the flames.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
14  I had to give the boy a penny afore he trusted me with it, the little swine.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
Example Sentence:
1  Never cast your pearls before swine.
2  Cast not your pearls before swine.
3  Don't throw pearls to swine.
4  A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.