Example sentences for: hay

How can you use “hay” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Similarly, putting up food often involves sealing it in jars later stored on shelves, as opposed to putting down a good supply of hay for your livestock.

  • Country Life Farm is as pastoral as it sounds, smelling of grass and hay and horses.

  • Their plaintiff is "upbeat" (ABC's This Week With Sam and Cokie ) and "the rule of law is alive and well" (CBS's Face the Nation ). With the president's men falling silent (a deliberate strategy, said George Stephanopoulos on This Week ), the liberal pundits made the case against Jones: She has become a "pitiful pawn" (Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ) of the wacko right, who are "making hay" (Steve Roberts, CNN's Late Edition ) and "diminishing the presidency" (Mark Shields, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) by dredging up Clinton's dirty laundry.

  • ("Hay fever" comes down from early 19 th century British farmers who misplaced blame for their ragweed allergies on the hay reaped during the fall harvest.)

  • It is, of course, ridiculous that there is political hay to be made by trying to prevent same-sex couples from adopting children.


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