haystack
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Sam Smith started at barn dances, singing on top of a haystack.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The best place to hide needles is in a haystack.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The process can take months for a single archaeological site and often feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
Maven was built to find the needle in the haystack.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
We were this close to that haystack, and our doom.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
I’ve used AI to summarize vast swaths of documents and pull needles from giant haystacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
Rather than spotting needles in a haystack, Gold said, satellites tend to capture “really big haystacks that are moving very slowly.”
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 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
