Hays

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noun

Will (Harrison), 1879–1954, U.S. lawyer, politician, and official of the motion-picture industry.

a city in central Kansas.

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How to use Hays in a sentence

“AGLA is not endorsing any of the candidates you heard today,” Hays told the gathering in closing remarks, noting that it is a nonpartisan group.
Arlington candidates greet LGBTQ voters at ‘Ice Cream Social’|Lou Chibbaro Jr.|September 26, 2022|Washington Blade
Hays and Anthony Santander, who walked, scored on a double by rookie Ramón Urías — who has been just as successful as Mountcastle, albeit in a limited role.
The rookies come up big as Orioles snap four-game losing streak|Jon Meoli|September 1, 2021|Washington Post
But the bigger reason Senator Hays is pushing for this law is because of Islam.
Islamophobic Florida Republican Would Legalize Textbook Censorship|Dean Obeidallah|April 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hopefully, the members of the Florida House, Democrats and Republicans alike, will reject Senator Hays' proposed legislation.
Islamophobic Florida Republican Would Legalize Textbook Censorship|Dean Obeidallah|April 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Well these Muslim book bashers found a perfect friend in Senator Hays.
Islamophobic Florida Republican Would Legalize Textbook Censorship|Dean Obeidallah|April 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After all, for the past four years Hays has introduced legislation to ban sharia law in Florida courts.
Islamophobic Florida Republican Would Legalize Textbook Censorship|Dean Obeidallah|April 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like a gangster shooting in a Hays Code era motion picture, the inhale and the exhale are shown in separate shots.
‘Silicon Valley’ and the Return of Stoner Television|Rich Goldstein|April 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
General Alexis Hays, in the front line, finding that he was outnumbered, sent word to Hancock that he must have reinforcements.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
Hays's division lay behind a stone wall, and a small grove of shrub-oaks.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
Fort Hays was just beyond the line of the most advanced settlements, and was then the terminus of the Kansas-Pacific railroad.
The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete|General Philip Henry Sheridan
The little ones were there with Mrs. Hays, and they excitedly welcomed this variation in their day's programme.
The Precipice|Elia Wilkinson Peattie
He is chiefly remembered because of the Hays-Hawley correspondence in 1874.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama|Walter L. Fleming