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Example sentences for: haywire

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

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.
Your youthful best pal may not remember things the way you do, he may be disinclined to pick up a long-distance friendship, or, sadly, his life may have gone haywire and he just isn't up to rejuvenating the old bond.
Lake said Washington had gone "haywire" and worn out his patience and dignity.
Almost magisterial, almost artistic, is the way this sentence begins to go haywire with the words "the miniseries of which"--and yet not.
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.