haystack
Example Sentences
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I guess I should have realized that a haystack is not a smart place to hide when you’re running from fire.
From Literature
This eliminates the costs and risks associated with pinpointing naturally occurring pockets of hot water, which are like needles in a haystack.
The messages, sent in 2018 and 2019—and up until the day before Epstein’s arrest—were needles in a roughly 20,000-page haystack of Epstein documents released by a House committee last week.
“You were a needle in a haystack, to be sure!”
From Literature
“Are merely the haystack. Designed to engage all our attention and make the needle within impossible to see.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
