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How to use haystack in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Haystack means a mound, pile, or stack of stored hay. Example: “Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.”

Examples of haystack by meaning

nounThe text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack).

  • Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack.2010, Peter MacIntyre, PHP: The Good Parts, page 39

More sentences with haystack

  • Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.From the entry slick
  • You'll never find the paper you need on her desk. You're looking for a needle in a haystack.From the entry needle in a haystack
  • The tractor drew up alongside the haystack.From the entry draw up
  • Suppose it chooses haystack A, rejecting haystack B as well as starvation.1995, Ross Harrison, World, mind, and ethics: essays on the ethical philosophy of Bernard Williams, illustrated edition, Cambridge…. From the entry Buridan's ass
  • A vain and arbitrary search for a needle in a haystack, that's exactly what it always seemed to be like.2012, Håkan Nesser, Münster's Case, An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery. From the entry police work
  • I'd only been thinking that the enterprise had more than a touch of looking for a needle in a haystack about it.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “CHAPTERS XX–XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry washout
  • “Who the devil is there in Ramilly County,” muttered Amory aloud, “who would deliver Verlaine in an extemporaneous tune to a soaking haystack?”1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Young Irony”, in This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II…. From the entry extemporaneous
  • "great beasts that resembled huge brown haystacks" and had long, long teeth — tusks, no doubt — so it seems incontrovertible that mastodons and woolly mammoths are meant.1990, Neil Rolde, Maine: A Narrative History, page 9. From the entry pachydermic
  • Once I borrowed the boss’s .22 rifle, and getting a good ‘possie’ round a haystack, popped off a couple of chooks before they knew what had happened.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 79. From the entry .22
  • The republiquette of which that professional trouble-maker was de facto tyrant, would be lost as a needle in a haystack in the smallest of the Argentine provinces.1927, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Pope of the Sea: An Historical Medley, page 220. From the entry republiquette

Meaning of haystack

  1. noun A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
  2. noun A standing wave in a rapid.
  3. noun The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack).

Full definition of haystack

Questions about haystack in a sentence

How do you use haystack in a sentence?
Haystack is used as a noun. For example: “Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.”
What is a short sentence with haystack?
“The tractor drew up alongside the haystack.”
What does haystack mean?
Haystack means a mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haystack (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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