Example sentences for: haystack

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

  • Other ubiquitous calcium compounds include gypsum—calcium sulfate (CaSO4;), which is what sheetrock is made of— and the active binding agent in cement, quicklime— Calcium oxide (CaO), produced by cooking limestone in a lime kiln (the primitive version, a lime rick —compare hay-rick , a variant of haystack —was a heap of earth with the stone and a fire kept going inside it—whence the name of the town in Ireland by which the doggerel verse-form is called as well ).

  • It was better than a haystack.

  • Since then we've been having the mop and the shag and the mane and the haystack, with straight and curled, long and short versions of each, sometimes untidily caught up in clamps and clasps and elastic bands.

  • And to show me the famous window of the Defenestration of Prague, the glorious day in May 1618 during the Thirty Years War when two royal Catholic officers had been hurled from the window by the Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet--and being in Prague, had landed on a haystack below.

  • The idea is that the program that once could pick out the needle of a phrase like "covert operative" in a haystack of e-mails has now been trained, says the paper, to do the same for "opportunity of a lifetime" and "so safe even my mother has it."


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