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How to use hazy in a sentence

26 example sentences · adjective, noun

Hazy means thick or obscured with haze. Example: “What hazies do you have on tap?”

Examples of hazy by meaning

adjectiveThick or obscured with haze.

  • a hazy view of the polluted city street

adjectiveNot clear or transparent.

  • Furthermore, kymographic pictures are hazy and sometimes distorted, while the pictures obtained by diagraphy are sharp and unobstructed.1939, American Review of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases, page 138

adjectiveObscure; confused; not clear.

  • a hazy argument
  • a hazy intellect
  • If Philip seems less well drawn, "the character who is closest to the author is probably the haziest because the author is not able to see himself with the same clarity."1986 October 5, Phillip Lopate, “SEXUAL POLITICS, FAMILY SECRETS”, in The New York Times

nounA variety of beer (typically a pale ale, India pale ale, or double India pale ale) golden in color with softer...

  • What hazies do you have on tap?
  • But what exactly is a hazy?2020 June 24, Molly Allen, “Hazy Beer 101: What Goes into That Instagrammable Pint”, in Sip Magazine, archived from the original on 06 May...
  • Hazies are a softer, slinkier IPA that swap the pinecone sharpness of a West Coast IPA for bright citrus.2024, Liz Cook, “Why I Do Not Care What Beer Geeks Think About Hazy IPAs”, in Kansas City Magazine, archived from the original on 19 Jun...

More sentences with hazy

  • The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.From the entry lurid
  • Calotypes have a hazy and mysterious feeling about them and feel painterly in the way they look.2022, Morgan Post, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer: A Beginner's Guide, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN. From the entry calotype
  • Like some of the more hands-off pét-nats, this was cloudy, almost hazy.2018 March 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, in The New York Times. From the entry pét-nat
  • They were somewhat hazy about what he was leading and when and why.1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN. From the entry Parnell
  • A spoggy's nest and (this one's a bit hazy) a piece of cotton wool!1991, Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, number 31, Wollongong: University…. From the entry spoggy
  • The odours of a saltpan in full production wafted into the hazy air and coiled away like cottonseed across the pond.2012, Jessica Stirling, Shadows On The Shore, →ISBN. From the entry panhouse
  • Reznor’s brooding, sinister songs (which range from thick industrial screamfests to hazy electronic ballads) have (rightly) seduced millions of like-minded fans.2009 June 5, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry screamfest
  • The chicksploitation image of Nobu Kitamura's Hysteric Glamour seems to have evolved from hazy stoner dreams of rock 'n' roll groupies.2007, Tiffany Godoy, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion - Tokyo. From the entry chicksploitation
  • The palms of TV looked especially welcome as the plane clumpered down on a hazy tarmac in a greenish, weedy field.1991, Alexander Buzo, Prue Flies North, page 68. From the entry clumper
  • Memories of this night are extremely hazy.1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 41. From the entry keno
  • Even some underwater pictures are hazy, sloppy and dull.1949, The New York Times Film Reviews, volume 4, page 2822. From the entry lenser
  • Like a lot of travel obsessions, it began with a map and a hazy idea of what we might see and encounter.2015 July 4, Rosemary McClure, “Wonder-filled trip of a lifetime along the Alaska Highway”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry Alcan
  • (This might surprise the millions of underexercised, wide-beamed Americans who nonetheless managed to plant two sneakered feet on the crown’s landing in hazy humidity).2009 May 9, Michael Powell, “To the Hardy, Lady Liberty’s Crown Beckons Anew”, in New York Times. From the entry underexercised
  • The edge appears as a boundary of razor-sharp obsidian glass with a hazy gray area of nothingness extending a few feet beyond it.1980, TSR, Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, page 52. From the entry multiversal
  • He's hazy on the ideas or moments that definitely shifted his political worldview, but he says: “I've always been good at spotting inflection points and trends.”2025 August 2, Anna Gross, quoting Zia Yusuf, “Lunch with the FT: Zia Yusuf”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial…. From the entry inflection point
  • On one of these walks, towards the end of the month, they sat peacefully together under a pear tree in a ‘crocusy field, perfect stillness, grey, hazy, mysterious’.2021, Jennifer Walker, Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey; A Biography of Elizabeth von Arnim, [Kibworth Beauchamp]…. From the entry crocusy
  • Being a list-o-maniac, I suggested we make a list of the "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts." So in the darkness of hazy sleep, I began to mentally prepare mine.2008, Working Mother, volume 31, number 8, page 20. From the entry should
  • He'd never thought himself especially susceptible to womanscent, but suddenly he felt hazy; before he could tell her about anger incapacitating him, his body's reaction made that claim moot.1991, F. M. Busby, chapter 17, in Slow Freight, Bantam Books, page 188. From the entry womanscent

Meaning of hazy

  1. adjective Thick or obscured with haze.
  2. adjective Not clear or transparent.
  3. adjective Obscure; confused; not clear.

Full definition of hazy

Questions about hazy in a sentence

How do you use hazy in a sentence?
Hazy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “What hazies do you have on tap?”
What is a short sentence with hazy?
“a hazy argument”
What does hazy mean?
Hazy means thick or obscured with haze.

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