Example sentences for: hays

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

  • Like the day he was born," says the Washington Post 's Charlotte Hays.

  • What's striking, as Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (1996), is how tenaciously we cling to "intensive motherhood," as she calls this ambitious mission, despite its increasing impracticality and despite how guilty it can make us feel.

  • A Midwesterner, Will Hays, Jr., who is proud of his knowledge of post-Civil-War history, tells me the following origin of shot , as in shotglass , absent from “Gunning for the English Language”:

  • Selznick pleaded to Hays, with a touch of irony, perhaps, “I do not feel that your giving me permission to use `damn' in this one sentence will open up the floodgates.”

  • It was a major sensation throughout the English-speaking world when, in 1939, David Selznick exceptionally prevailed upon Will Hays, the architect of Hollywood censorship, to permit Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind to utter his famous valediction to Scarlett O'Hara, “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”


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