haystack
noun
a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
haystacks
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pluralof haystack.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Armpit’s economics teacher once told the class about a donkey standing exactly halfway between two identical haystacks.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
