hayfield
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hayfield
Example Sentences
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So we get Masters, by himself, prophesizing doom from a desert or a hayfield, his ads radiating a weird, wordy energy.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022
Then it’s either at the feedlot or in the hayfield to make hay bales or help move cattle.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2019
Blume and his wife were also furious that the workers had dug up their hayfield to install the pipe.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018
Nor have they charged him in connection with the death of Harrington, whose remains were found in a hayfield three months after she disappeared from a Metallica concert on U.Va.’s Charlottesville campus in 2009.
From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2014
So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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