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How to use haze in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Haze means very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.). Example: “The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.”

Examples of haze by meaning

nounVery fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting...

  • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29

nounAn analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.

  • The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
  • The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.

nounAny state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.

  • In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat, →ISBN, page 218
  • But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity.1994, Michael Thomas Roeder, A History of the Concerto, page 312
  • Because he chose to be "a citizen of somewhere else," we glimpse him now only "through the haze of memory."2005, Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, page 179

nounThe degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.

  • Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.1998, Leonard I. Nass, Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC, →ISBN, page 318

nounAny substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.

  • Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking, →ISBN, page 69

verbTo be or become hazy, or thick with haze.

  • Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia...

verbTo use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.

  • Hazing a bear involves creating a "negative experience for a bear that seeks out human food or loses its natural avoidance of humans and developed areas," the release said.2016 July 18, Annie Zak, “Brown bear seriously injured in 'hazing' attempt in Southeast Alaska”, in Anchorage Daily News

More sentences with haze

  • From the shore, they watched the disappearance of the ships' masts into the haze.From the entry disappearance
  • In the city at night, the sky hazes over so you can't see the stars.From the entry haze over
  • As you get closer the haze goes away.From the entry go away
  • Soon, the room was alive with people dancing and singing under a haze of blue strobe lights.2026 March 24, Chris Serres, Danny McDonald, Mable Chan, The Boston Globe, retrieved 31 May 2026. From the entry back and forth
  • He stood in the evening on the street in the haze of rain-flecked light.2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 192–193. From the entry moto
  • Pale tourists, tired but excited, emerge like apparitions from the heat haze that shimmers over the tarmac.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 22, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. From the entry shimmer
  • As the bender wore on, Morrissey and his cronies eventually slipped under the haze of the booze.2016, Brian Bouyea, Bare Knuckles & Saratoga Racing. From the entry slip under
  • Does that mean we should blame our kopi aunties and uncles for the haze?2013 July 3, Terry Xu, “One Kopi, No Haze Please”, in The Online Citizen, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016. From the entry kopi auntie
  • As she rocked against him, she couldn′t stop watching his murky eyes grow even more hazed.2008, A. J. Hampton, Hostile Devotions, unnumbered page. From the entry hazed
  • The upcoming year promises to reveal several tracks of grimey jungalist haze and aggressively smelt percussion.2007, Urb - Volume 17, Issues 143-147, page 52. From the entry jungalist
  • In Maolin, outside Kaohsiung, millions of striped blue crow butterflies create a purplish haze in the forests.2006, David C. King, Taiwan (Enchantment of the World), Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43. From the entry Maolin
  • The images of reality become more and more hazed, more and more dim.2004, Matthew McGuire, Dreams Of Hope, page 37. From the entry hazed
  • Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165. From the entry barren
  • He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze.1986, Vernor Vinge, “Marooned in Realtime”, in Across Realtime, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 312. From the entry autofactory
  • A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.1952, Ralph Ellison, chapter 23, in Invisible Man. From the entry moil
  • The sun was climbing zenithwards across a haze of dazzling light.1940, Roger Martin du Gard, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Summer, 1914, London: John Lane, Part 2, Chapter 57, p. 751. From the entry zenithwards
  • Mountains lower, valleys fill with haze, the summer air grows clear, piercing and Novembral.1900, Charles Montgomery Skinner, Flowers in the Pave, page 57. From the entry Novembral
  • Moments before Graber showed up, the haze lifted.2025 May 19, Kate Knibbs, “Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 19 May 2025. From the entry Graber
  • But if you were beyond a drunken haze, the girls could get increasingly better looking, and "Buy me drinkie" you might.2008, Marco Martinez, Hard Corps: From Gangster to Marine Hero, page 100. From the entry drinkie
  • They passed in a haze of certain failure.1991, Ellen Ashley, chapter 9, in Understudy (Center Stage; 3), New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Girls Only, →ISBN, pages 135–136. From the entry it's not over 'til the fat lady sings
  • Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union, the couple once viewed American society only dimly, through a haze of cultural differences.1988 September 1, Alan Sverdlik, “Leaving the Old World: Soviet Jews Are Comfortable With American Life”, in The Atlanta Constitution…. From the entry kotleta
  • Dutifully and in a haze of ponderment I followed.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 26, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 174. From the entry ponderment
  • Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke.1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 17. From the entry ochrous
  • Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN…. From the entry intrigue
  • Diana saw herself through the haze she conjured up.1910, George Meredith, The works of George Meredith - Volume 16 - Page 275. From the entry twithought
  • At the Bluetick Tavern, a bucket of blood hangout on the outskirts of Little Black Water, a haze of smoke clung to the ceiling joists.2015, Ken R. Abell, Nightmares of Terror, page 108. From the entry bucket of blood
  • So she let herself be crammed into a corner of the smelliest pub in town, slowly kippering in a haze of other people's cigarette smoke.2012, Zoe Barnes, Just Married. From the entry kipper
  • This production, which takes all the focus I can muster in my precaffeinated haze, results in about two ounces of good, strong coffee.2009 January 4, Pete Wells, “Orange Genius”, in New York Times. From the entry precaffeinated
  • The weather by the beach can be considerably cooler—ten degrees or more— and usually starts with fog and haze that burn off by late morning.2005, Lark Gould, Los Angeles Off the Beaten Path®, page xix. From the entry burn off
  • They were not a band of rebellious “fraggers” assassinating their officers or marauding killers piling up body counts of the innocent in a haze of marijuana smoke.2017 April 11, James Wright, “The Baby Boomer War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fragger

Meaning of haze

  1. noun Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.).
  2. noun A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
  3. noun An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.

Full definition of haze

Questions about haze in a sentence

How do you use haze in a sentence?
Haze is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.”
What is a short sentence with haze?
“As you get closer the haze goes away.”
What does haze mean?
Haze means very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.).

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