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Example sentences for: haywire

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Almost magisterial, almost artistic, is the way this sentence begins to go haywire with the words "the miniseries of which"--and yet not.
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 .
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.
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.