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Example sentences for: haywire

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USAT 's Y2K/health care story is hooked to Senate hearings to be held today on such problems as: crashing computers wiping out medical records, intravenous feeders and dialysis machines going haywire, and back-up generators failing.
Lake said Washington had gone "haywire" and worn out his patience and dignity.
Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.
If plans went haywire, they went skywest and crooked .
Almost magisterial, almost artistic, is the way this sentence begins to go haywire with the words "the miniseries of which"--and yet not.