Example Sentences

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“What you must realize,” he wrote to his first wife, Mary, “is that once I begin a story you become a character, not a person; Monet’s haystacks didn’t complain that they weren’t really purple.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

"It's not just one needle in a haystack, but one needle in several haystacks," Singapore's second minister for home affairs, Josephine Teo, told parliament in October last year.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2024

"You really are fishing needles out of haystacks."

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

They gave speeches in front of haystacks and wandered around in dad jeans pressing the flesh.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2023

The millet was reaped with stone knives, piled into haystacks, and threshed to obtain the seeds, which were then stored in skin bags or wooden dishes and finally ground with millstones.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond