make hay
Example Sentences
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That matters because successful investors make hay while the sun shines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
They say you should make hay while the sun shines, and farmers have been doing just that.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
TikTokers like Julie Kay and Catherine Benson make hay from the visual splendor of the well-apportioned kitchen, stocking their refrigerators like a particularly fancy hotel minibar and doing things with Tupperware you could never imagine.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025
She aims to make hay of these loans that might merely have been also-rans at richer, bigger institutions in big cities.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022
Later, the grass had been cut to make hay that would feed the farm’s animals through the winter.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
