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
  • Hanging out with swans and adorable piglets in a lush garden.
    — Meagan Fredette, Teen Vogue, 22 May 2019
  • The image captures a sow and piglets against a split rail fence.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2025
  • State police said the piglets had fallen off the truck.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Small livestock like piglets, chickens and ducks were sold in bags.
    — Judy Holmes, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This sweet piglet oinks, walks, and wags its tail, making playtime feel like farm life.
    — Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 2 Nov. 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
  • Squealing newborn piglets were passed around to hold for photo ops.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Rey sits with some piglet-like young creatures and watches a puppet show.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Most of the piglets were returned safely to their owner.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • After three weeks, the nursing piglets are taken away.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • On a farm stay, guests might have the option to stargaze, enjoy outdoor sports, or see piglets birthed.
    — Liz Tracy, Vox, 11 July 2019
  • But what if a piglet not only sees but understands what the farmer has done to his momma?
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Tiny piglets covered in birth fluid and blood stumble around on the metal grate floors.
    — Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The piglets were being denied food and water and would have been allowed to starve to death.
    — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But—spoiler alert—the piglet and pup hit it off surprisingly well.
    — Rori Kotch, Country Living, 16 July 2015
  • Ten piglets were born thereafter and two of them were chimeric, containing monkey cells.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Pigs have three litters a year and can have between eight and 11 piglets in a litter.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Inside, the air is filled with the sound of snorting, grunting, squealing pigs and piglets.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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 cloned embryos were then implanted in a sow that gave birth to piglets with the genetic changes.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 27 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
  • After going on view on Friday, the piglets were stolen over the weekend.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Gunda, the mother pig of the title, cares for her adorably fuzzy and tussling newborn piglets.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In a world of gloomy news headlines, Hasbro felt a cute cartoon piglet was just what the world needed.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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