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haystack
[ hey-stak ]
noun
- a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
haystack
/ ˈheɪˌrɪk; ˈheɪˌstæk /
noun
- a large pile of hay, esp one built in the open air and covered with thatch
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Example Sentences
But that trend also makes this GOTV mission largely needle-in-haystack.
The judges have seemed serious about finding a legitimate hit act in the audition haystack.
Henry laid his brother down and stretched his aching arms, while Jess began to burrow into the haystack.
They climbed over two stone walls, got across a brook somehow with the heavy child, and arrived at the haystack.
And the children crept quietly to the noisy little brook not far from the haystack.
The man and the youth ask to sleep for the night upon a haystack, and stop in friendly talk with Mirèio.
To look for him in a big city like this will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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