How to Use hayloft in a Sentence
hayloft
noun-
The movie takes place mostly in the cramped setting of a hayloft where the women meet and talk, and talk.
— Alisson Wood, ELLE, 27 Jan. 2023 -
For two years, the family of nine would sleep and eat in the corner of a hayloft in the back of Struk’s house.
— Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2022 -
Upstairs is a hayloft and an office with a kitchenette and half bath.
— Julie Lasky, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018 -
Once a rat in its haste jumped from the hayloft onto my shoulder, using it as a springboard to the floor.
— Longreads, 22 May 2017 -
Upstairs in the hayloft were piles of old tires, bags of shipping peanuts, old couches, lumber.
— Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019 -
The Democrats have been playing with fire for months like foolish, thoughtless kids playing with matches in the hayloft of a barn.
— John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2020 -
The clients’ spaniel, Jake, lays claim to the best spot in the former hayloft, which overlooks sweeping views of the surrounding countryside.
— Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful, 22 Sep. 2021 -
At one point, they were discovered by Stefania’s son, Tadeusz, who helped to build a larger space for them in the hayloft.
— Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2022 -
Other structures include a garage, a hayloft and an old kennel.
— Lauren Beale, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021 -
The pièce de résistance is the vast living area on the second floor, which was originally the hayloft.
— Sally Friedman, Philly.com, 22 Dec. 2017 -
Here in the hayloft, that becomes a literal and urgent question.
— Amanda Hess, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022 -
This individual is one of the latest in a family line to emerge from the old hayloft.
— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021 -
But the Ukraine affair has caused something to snap, and not merely because Trump has supplied enough final straws to fill a hayloft.
— Molly Ball, Time, 26 Sep. 2019 -
As cows grazed on green fields last week, barn restorer Michael Stitt crouched in the hayloft and, with a winch, hand-tightened a chain and cable wrapped around the beams of the barn's upper wall.
— Author: Zaz Hollander, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017 -
Over the course of a tense two-day period, the women convene in a hayloft to debate their options: do nothing, stay and fight or leave.
— Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022 -
The two-level building also has a bunkhouse upstairs in a former hayloft that can sleep 10 people.
— Kelly Smith, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017 -
In the original stable, a vintage French chandelier hangs where there was once a hayloft.
— Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 10 June 2021 -
The world beyond them, viewed from the gaping hayloft doorway, is an impressionist blur.
— Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022 -
But the crowning glory is the barn’s hayloft, which was transformed into the ultimate party room with game tables, four beds, and a bar.
— Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2022 -
Most of the film takes place in a hayloft, where eight women have gathered, a makeshift council tasked with deciding how to deal with the situation.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2022 -
The story, set in Poland, opens with Roza and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, hiding in a hayloft after the rest of their family has been murdered.
— Mary Beth Keane, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020 -
The movie’s hayloft scenes were shot in a Toronto studio, with exteriors done on location at a farm outside the city.
— Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2022 -
As far as anyone knows, there was no vote in Manitoba, no secret meeting in a hayloft.
— Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 June 2019 -
Living through a pandemic is hard and painful, but my great-great-grandfather was murdered in a hayloft for being Jewish.
— Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2022 -
Toews sets her philosophical, innovative novel over the course of two days as women gather in a hayloft and debate what to do.
— New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019 -
Like the book, the movie takes place almost entirely in a hayloft over 48 hours, as women of different generations try to decide whether to stay and fight or leave the men in their community who have drugged and raped them.
— Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022 -
In a hayloft overlooking the soy fields, dirt roads, and rustic houses that make up their isolated religious colony, eight women gather for a discussion.
— Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023 -
Soon beliefs and temperaments clash among the eight people, representing three generations, who gather in the hayloft.
— Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022 -
But the standout feature of this property is its first-rate equestrian facilities, which includes a nine-stall stable, two tack rooms, two exercise rings, a hayloft and paddocks with double fences.
— Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2021 -
As the men leave to bail out several of the perpetrators, multiple generations of women secretly gather in a remote hayloft.
— Devan Coggan and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
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