hayfield
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hayfield
Example Sentences
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They were captured in the hayfield alongside the jail.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2020
When I was a child in upstate New York, I would mow our hayfield and it would stir up hundreds of insects per foot.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018
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
And once they barely escaped from the middle of a hayfield when the hay was cutting.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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