hayloft

as in attic

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Recent Examples of hayloft Hemingway wrote in what had been the hayloft. Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021 In the hayloft, however, that’s not the case. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023 The crimes, once dismissed as figments of female imagination or attributed to demons, have finally resulted in arrests, and with only 24 hours to spare while the men are away posting bail, 11 women gather in a hayloft to debate and determine nothing less than their collective futures. Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022 Like the novel, much of Polley’s adaptation unfolds in the hayloft, as actors including Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Judith Ivey play Mennonite women debating and discussing their options, and Ben Whishaw plays a colony man taking the minutes of the meeting. Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for hayloft 
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Noun
  • In 2021, one man sold a Charizard-Holo (Shadowless) from 1999 for $50,000 after discovering the card gathering dust in his attic.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Most of us have half a dozen boxes of old family photos gathering dust in the attic.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Our host at an Airbnb loft on a Highland cattle ranch ($120 a night) near Fairfield informed us that Soldier operates Thursdays through Sundays.
    Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • There was a thick old fire hose in the loft that Joyce had installed for Ricks.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan As anyone who has spent time living in a Parisian garret will tell you, the romantic notion of it dies pretty quickly, especially during a sweltering summer or a teeth-chattering winter.
    Tobias Grey, airmail.news, 13 July 2024
  • For all those years her room was part of the architecture and geography of my being: a small attic with a garret window, poorly lit, hot in the summer.
    Édouard Louis, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024

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“Hayloft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hayloft. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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