How to Use haywire in a Sentence

haywire

adverb or adjective

• When the stem cells go haywire, the result is leukemia.
  — Richard G. "bugs" Stevens, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
• Even the name of this recipe makes the pleasure sensors in my brain go haywire.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
• Things go haywire from there, with Sach’s new set of guildines, the Paradox Bullets, to guide Ruscha.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2018
• At any time, any one of the 15 different ad sets might go haywire.
  — Burt Helm, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Nagasu felt her nerves kick in as the jump went haywire.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2018
• Somewhere along the line, the whole system started to go haywire.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2018
• But, like the earlier version, the ride turns haywire when the creatures escape and threaten to eat the visitors.
  — Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Railway tracks have been submerged and sent train schedules haywire.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 2 July 2019
• The lighting was great until halfway through the show, when everything went haywire.
  — Emilio Fraia, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• The traffic lights in the city were going haywire, causing accidents.
  — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2019
• But after Nijinsky marries one of the company’s ballerinas at the end of the first act, Diaghilev goes haywire and so does the play.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Dellin Betances pitched a scoreless seventh to temporarily protect the 5-0 lead, but then things went haywire for the home team.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• The human body goes haywire when hurled into space and away from the familiar environment of the Earth's surface.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
• The past few months have brought a hurricane of horror stories about social media sites gone haywire.
  — Carlos Maza, Vox, 21 Sep. 2018
• Each month, like clockwork, right at the peak of my menstrual cycle, my hormones go haywire and I'm left with a number of whiteheads and blackheads.
  — Shammara Lawrence, Allure, 15 Mar. 2018
• Yet — and here’s the subtlety in their work — these nonunique extensions of space-time don’t mean that Einstein’s equations go haywire beyond the horizon.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 May 2018
• This would seem to make the two men sociological soul mates, yet in the morning all goes haywire when Reda pockets Édouard’s iPad and iPhone.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
• When Salinger first proposed the arrangement, Claude turned him down, fearing the many things that could go wrong if the president’s visit to a prostitute went haywire.
  — Larry Getlen, Fox News, 24 May 2018
• Within seconds, social media went haywire over the ad, which featured women of all ages.
  — Monique O. Madan, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
• When the speediest planet goes retrograde, these areas of our lives have the tendency to go haywire.
  — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• Three years have also passed in the film, and the damage wrought in that movie is still being cleaned up — $800 million has been paid out to patrons unlucky enough to have been in attendance when things went haywire.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 20 June 2018
• Previous laws required someone to be there in case something went haywire.
  — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 18 June 2019
• Yet this debate has taken all that to a new level, and making what is left of the conventional political system go haywire in the process.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• Locales have been changed and other liberties taken, but the crazy way the simple kidnapping plan goes haywire is too amazing to not be real.
  — David Hunter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
• In the places with lots of jobs, primarily coastal cities, the real estate market has gone absolutely haywire.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 13 June 2019
• The body’s immune response can go haywire, overwhelming and sometimes continuing to damage the brain for months.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Apr. 2018
• In other words, patches do occasionally cause things to go haywire, which means that Home users could wade through some wonky updates as Windows 10 evolves.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 5 Mar. 2019
• In both disasters, a once-obscure flight-control system went haywire, nudging the planes’ noses down until pilots were overwhelmed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• Pass rusher is an obvious need for Seattle, especially if anything goes haywire in the contract talks with Frank Clark.
  — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
• What her doctor said next surprised her: Amanda had likely entered perimenopause, the five to 10 years leading up to menopause when hormones start to go haywire, spiking and dipping seemingly at random.
  — Meryl Davids Landau, Woman's Day, 27 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024