How to Use haystack in a Sentence

haystack

noun
  • That’s no exaggeration in this case, as needles tend to be shiny and haystacks don’t tend to be all that large.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2024
  • The Water Lilies, the haystacks, the bridges, the cathedrals, the poppies.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The needle is the same size but the haystack is smaller.
    Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2016
  • There’s a lot more to see on the north coast than rocks shaped like haystacks.
    oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • When told it’s a needle-in-a-haystack job, she’s hooked.
    Diana Andro, star-telegram.com, 19 June 2017
  • There’s the needle-in-a-haystack puzzle of it—there’s a lot of ocean floor!
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Needle, haystack and running for the hills, don’t trip on the guy right in front of you.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • There was nary a mask in sight in Tuscaloosa, other than the few needles in the haystack.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The family of five posed in cozy sweaters on a haystack in front of a large pile of logs.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • LHCb is designed to tease out these needles from the haystack.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Finding the right log can be like finding a needle in the haystack.
    Shahar Fogel, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • And some homes are cutesy with a pumpkin, haystacks and soft lighting.
    John Benson, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Trying to find the leak can be like finding a needle in a haystack.
    Karen Ridder, kansascity, 12 May 2017
  • Every piece is a needle in a haystack that makes no sense.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Some of these films are needles in the haystack of cinema.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But finding the One above a size 14 can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
    Olivia Muenter, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2019
  • That’s not the easiest needle to find in a haystack of questions about the 1-5 Vikings, but thank you to Davis for the changeup.
    Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Paul may have been talking about lily ponds and haystacks but, well, point taken.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2013
  • What could be harder than looking for a needle in a haystack?
    Fox News, 8 July 2022
  • Neither runner found his way to home plate, akin to a needle in a haystack for the Tribe this weekend.
    Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 25 June 2017
  • Straw in a garbage haystack San Franciscans have had their last straw — the last plastic one, at least.
    Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
  • For 2019's photo, the family of five posed in cozy sweaters on a haystack in front of a large pile of logs at Anmer Hall.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Tracking down the correct iPhone fix can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.
    Simon Hill, Wired, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Trying to find somebody to work in this place is like finding a needle in a haystack, even at $15 an hour.
    J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
  • The union might expend endless energy to find that needle in the haystack.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Finding the perfect pair of sneakers can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack.
    Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2022
  • Got a better way to shop to save money and find a needle in the haystack of online retailers?
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Her job is to find the needle in a haystack, to sift through complex evidence and data to help FBI agents solve crimes.
    CBS News, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Middleburg is kind of a needle in a haystack, further from the city, not the most developed.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 29 July 2021
  • The artwork heading to the auction block is one of Monet’s later haystack paintings.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024

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