hayloft
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hayloft
Example Sentences
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The 5.15-acre property also includes a heated barn with eight stalls, a “Grand Prix” field, a hayloft, a tack room, a wash stall, and an office.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
The action rarely leaves the hayloft and never leaves the farm.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
Make a movie out of Miriam Toews’ novel “Women Talking,” which is essentially what the title says, set in a Mennonite colony hayloft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
When the colony’s men head to town to post their bail, the women assemble in a hayloft to argue their options: They can do nothing; stay and fight; or leave.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Whatever cautionary value the tale may have had was thus lost, and now here she was, in a hayloft with a pirate, and rather pleased about it, too.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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