How to Use porcine in a Sentence

porcine

adjective
  • This is your chance to sleep where a porcine heiress to a billionaire fortune hath slept!
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 30 Mar. 2017
  • But even these porcine versions of cockroaches have to deal with winter.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • China’s porcine problems began a year ago when African swine fever broke out.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • And 4-year-old Bray-Bray, as his human calls him, is among the most strong-willed of porcine units.
    — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • In one, a porcine businessman holds out a medal to a legless soldier dragging himself across a floor.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Its troubles stem from a quip about the inflationary impact of the porcine pandemic, which has pushed up consumer prices.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • At Crystal Beach, the 22 pigs are back in the water, porcine-paddling for apple slices.
    — Andrea Sachs, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
  • My tour of porcine anatomy concluded with the sweetbreads, which are neither sweet nor bread, served with fennel and a dollop of pureed apricot.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • Non-porcine options include chicken-liver terrine, a catch-of-the-day fish and duck, and the profiteroles with vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce should not be missed.
    — Alexander Lobrano, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Researchers showed that the porcine endogenous retrovirus, or PERV, can jump from pig to human cells in test tubes.
    — Kristen Philipkoski, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2002
  • Just a few months after the Super Bowl commercial aired, Max’s pulmonary valve needed to be replaced with a porcine valve.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The menu’s porcine selection, roasted pork collar, arrived too red and rare, and, though tender, revealed little distinctive flavor.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The technology will be used to ward off the porcine pests who roam the mountainous region around the Games with fast-acting systems that shoot rays, spew gases and emit tiger roars.
    — Fortune, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Like its porcine cousin, the possibilities are gloriously endless.
    — Katie Chang, Esquire, 23 June 2016
  • Okja is technically a pig but also shares her lineage with hippos, elephants and manatees, the gentle sea cows that largely inspired her not-very-porcine face.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 23 June 2017
  • Instead of porcine praise, everyone wanted to know about the last-minute zucchini dish (yes, that ubiquitous and much-maligned summer staple zucchini).
    — Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appetit, 21 July 2017
  • Despite such efforts, the scale of the porcine plague in China means that South-East Asia will probably struggle with it for as long as its neighbour does.
    — The Economist, 19 June 2019
  • And there are grafts that make use of cadaver tissue or porcine tissue (collected from pigs), which are generally reserved for more severe cases, Papapanou says.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 11 Mar. 2019
  • After a half dozen accidental hits on the electric fence involving squealing, indignant snorting and porcine stomping, Bray went to a corner of the fence that didn’t have hogwire.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • And in lab experiments, these porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) tended to leap from pig to human cells.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Director Bong Joon Ho's uneven movie is about a girl, her giant, adorable pet pig and an evil corporation that wants to separate them — and also to separate our porcine heroine into bacon strips.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
  • Months earlier, Prather’s team had reported creating pigs altered to resist the industry’s costliest infection, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 31 July 2019
  • Baby pigs on farms are especially vulnerable to illness, and one particular disease, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, causes exactly the symptoms the piglets were having—vomiting, severe diarrhea, death from dehydration, and stress.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018

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