How to Use swine in a Sentence

swine

noun

• Most of the time, having feral swine around is a bad thing for hunters.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Culling swine is one of the main ways officials hope to curb the disease.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2019
• In the show arena, there will be the Junior Fair swine show, dog show, open beef show and more.
  — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 26 July 2021
• Also check out the Baja taco, left, or steak and swine taco.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 27 June 2018
• The men are enticed into the house by Circe’s singing and turned into swine.
  — Martin Aitken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• Copper, row crops and swine are still around their highest prices in years.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 June 2021
• By law, swine that are trapped in Alabama must be killed on site.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 15 May 2022
• What better time for a little movie about a man, a swine and the unbearable weight of grief?
  — Sara Stewart, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• Weak demand overseas and at home has prices for U.S. swine locked in a decline.
  — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• The rise of the feral hog has been a steady process with inbreeding of various breeds of swine.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
• In the country’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, nine people have died of swine fule since Feb. 1.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 1 Mar. 2020
• Logan is Circe, turning sailors to swine—speaks to their power.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019
• But in recent days, players have noticed that the swine that greets them now touts a golden crown.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• The people who were sickened, who ranged from 2- to 43-years-old, had contact with cattle, swine, goats and sheep.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2019
• Nestled in the lower left corner was Hog Island, its northern edge curved like the back of a great swine.
  — David Garczynski, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• The country only imported about $10 million of swine from the U.S. last year.
  — Benjamin Parkin, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Among those is a program to gun down pigs from helicopters as the swine scurry through open marshes and fields.
  — Sammy Fretwell, charlotteobserver, 23 Dec. 2017
• The partnership’s first project gathers gas in Utah’s Escalante Desert from 26 swine farms.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• Many species of truffles attract a range of animals, but the ones that humans like to eat evolved to attract swine.
  — Eugenia Bone, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• As prices soar, the government is trying to induce farmers to raise more swine.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2019
• The swine have proven themselves to be formidable foes.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
• Animal farming with pigs and birds has led to the pandemics of swine and bird influenzas.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• For example, there are flus that occur in dogs, plus pig — or swine — flu viruses.
  — Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
• Artist Jeff Grader created the logo of the refined swine.
  — Kellie Hwang, azcentral, 30 Apr. 2018
• The pig was sighted on Shenandoah Road, where neighbors shot video of the unbelievably swift swine.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 29 Sep. 2022
• Then, in 2012, a delta-coronavirus infected swine in Hong Kong.
  — Anthony King, Science | AAAS, 20 May 2021
• Neither treatment nor vaccine has been found as of yet for the African swine fever, which kills 98 percent of swine infected.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
• One big culprit: plunging pork prices as the country's swine stock recovers from African swine fever.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2020
• The swine are inflicting a mounting economic toll in Lafayette, a suburb in the East Bay, where the pig invasion seems most acute.
  — Thomas Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• However, that's an extreme and rare example of what these swine can do.
  — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024