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• This whole fear over swine flu was unfounded; it was clearly an overreaction.From the entry overreaction
• Your lecture deserved a much better reception than it got. Pearls before swine!From the entry pearls before swine
• Swine influenza is an example of an orthomyxovirus.From the entry orthomyxovirus
• The monastery's records showed not only how many swine were raised each year but also their disposition, categorized by boars, sows, hoggets, and porklings.From the entry hogget
• At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.From the entry epizootic
• China has culled 1.2 million pigs in an effort to contain a deadly swine disease.2019 September 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Raymond Zhong, “China’s Pork Prices Soar, Adding to Beijing’s Troubles”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Yiyang
• Previously, two other pigs with swine fever virus had drifted onto the shores of Kinmen.2019 March 18, Olivia Li, “Another Dead Pig That Drifted Ashore in Taiwan Found to Have African Swine Fever”, in The Epoch Times, archived…. From the entry Chukuang
• Gentlemen, before this is over, we'll be bedoven with mud but the swine will be dead.2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning. From the entry bedoven
• For swine there are four categories: boars, sows, hoggets, and porklings or sucking-pigs (porcelli).2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
• One swine megafarm in Milford Valley, Utah, reputedly produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles.2006, Mike Davis, The Monster at Our Door, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry megafarm
• Each “sounder," or group , of wild swine will be joined by a dominant boar when there are females in estrus.2019, Alice Percy, Happy Pigs Taste Better: A Complete Guide to Organic and Humane Pasture-Based Pork Production, Chelsea Green Publisher…. From the entry sounder
• The current H1N1 virus (swine flu) is a mixture of avian flus that passed through pigs to humans.2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 44. From the entry H1N1
• Those swine: Next year we should demand a gonzo category – or maybe R S should give it.2000, Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley, Fear and Loathing in America: The brutal odyssey of an outlaw Journalist, 1968–1976. From the entry gonzo
• The men in her life were all swine before whom she'd cast the margaric treasures of her mind and body.1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 31. From the entry margaric
• But I have been foolish—casting my pearls before swine!1947, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 10. From the entry cast pearls before swine
• Parker." "And pearls before swine," said Mrs.1938 September 16, John Carter, “Best Sellers and the Atlantic”, in The Spectator, page 448. From the entry age before beauty
• The next day, after an early dingo's breakfast, which consists only of water, we headed out to chase down the elusive swine.2016, Matt Chadwick, Dirt Classroom, page 39. From the entry dingo's breakfast
• We can see in Isaiah 52:1 that the uncircumcised (Gentiles) were termed unclean by the same definition with which God termed swine to be unclean.2014, Cornie Banman, Traditional Anti-Torah Church Doctrines: The Curses of Our Fathers, →ISBN. From the entry uncircumcised
• In fact, Hamsun now completes his allusion to the story of the Gadarene swine alluded to by Pauline in the previous novel.2005, Sverre Lyngstad, Knut Hamsun, Novelist: A Critical Assessment, Peter Lang, page 294. From the entry Gadarene swine
• We heard about the PIRS (the Pig Industry Restructuring Scheme); about its importance 'to both outgoers and ongoers'; we even heard about 'classical swine fever'.2001, Matthew Parris, Off message: new Labour, new sketches, page 299. From the entry ongoer
• Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39. From the entry cattle
• “But wait till I light on you, no matter where it is, I’ll settle your hash for a bit, yer little swine!”1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 13”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry settle someone's hash
• China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported a new case of African swine fever on a farm in the northwestern region of Ningxia on Tuesday.2019 September 10, Dominique Patton, “China reports new African swine fever case in Ningxia”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters, archived…. From the entry Ningxia
• In North Korea, which faces chronic food shortages, swine fever has killed all pigs in North Phyongan province, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea’s intelligence agency.2019 September 24, Jane Chung, Ju-min Park, Hyunjoo Jin, “South Korea confirms fifth case of African swine fever”, in Tom Hogue, Jason…. From the entry North Phyongan
• The hogringer had to go to the commons and see that all the swine had rings in their noses to prevent them rooting up the turf.2014, Eleanor Trotter, Seventeenth Century Life in the Country Parish, page 5. From the entry hogringer
• But when the president tells me to vaccinate every man, woman, and child against swine flu, I will refuse because it is dangerous and a nonaccomplishable goal.1976, The Bureaucrat - Volumes 5-6, page 70. From the entry nonaccomplishable
• All other countries which included swine in their census returns, with the exception of England and Wales and Scotland, have made a distinction between porklets and full grown animals.1937, The First World Agricultural Census (1930): A Methodological Study of the Questions Contained in the Forms Adopted for the Purposes…. From the entry porklet
• Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled.1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 11. From the entry rootle
• China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported two cases of swine fever in Sichuan in March, one in the east in Huaying city, and another in the far west.2021 July 9, Dominique Patton, “Swine fever surge hits small farms in China's Sichuan”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters, archived…. From the entry Huaying

Meaning of swine

1. noun A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.
2. noun Pig, pork, the meat of pigs.
3. noun A contemptible person, particularly one imbued with negative piglike characteristics, a greedy, lazy, dirty, and/or lecherous person.

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Questions about swine in a sentence

How do you use swine in a sentence?

Swine is used as a noun. For example: “The Zimmermann farm raises swine for their meat.”

What is a short sentence with swine?

“Parker." "And pearls before swine," said Mrs.”

What does swine mean?

Swine means a pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.