How to Use hay in a Sentence

hay

noun
  • There is hay stuck on his head and a rope around his horns.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But first, Klaren would wring some of it out for his next hay crop.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Use hay bales to hold pumpkins and add a farm-fresh feel.
    Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Now, along with his father, Wuest farms the 60-plus acre site for hay.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Fill out the look with hay bales and the muted tones of heirloom pumpkins.
    Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The guests will be seated on hay bales covered with a white cloth.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • To the east was a machine shed and several rows of hay bales, to the west a green pasture.
    Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • So, what about the go-to quick-fix feeding options like shelled corn or hay?
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The grass, pastures, hay fields have started to go dormant and turn brown.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • Dad talked about turning windrows of hay with the reverence of an artist.
    Hazlitt, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The goats rode shotgun, their seat covered in plastic and hay.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Some would probably have preferred to just hit the hay.
    Karen Schneider, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Witnesses told deputies there was no hay or feed on the farm and there were three pens, each with dozens of dead goats in them.
    Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2023
  • The scent features top notes of hay, amber, and clove, as well as mid notes of birch wood, nutmeg, and maple bark.
    Jenna Clark, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2023
  • His chronic ailments were hay fever (which is hard on a man who mows hay), headaches, and La Grippe.
    Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Baldridge said that for the most part, hay producers in Lawrence were already through their first cut of the season.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
  • His white hair had not been cut for many months and hung down over his gnarled ears and forehead like a forkful of hay.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Warm Springs Ranch said the horses eat some 50 pounds of hay and drink 35 gallons of water each day.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
  • One tradition is for children to leave grass or hay out for the three kings in exchange for a gift.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • This farm boasts a four-acre corn maze, pumpkins, a play area for the kids; plus, train rides, hay hides and face painting on the weekends.
    Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • This coconut soy wax blend's has notes of honey and hay as well as heliotrope.
    Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Little farmers can navigate the hay maze and play in the kids’ areas.
    Mike Rose, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The calm scene is a far cry from the revving tractors and bales of hay blocking major highways just a few miles outside the city.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The house smells like a mix of mildew, rotted hay and septic system overflow.
    Time, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Clues like an old hay bale window hint at its previous life as a barn and garage.
    Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 9 June 2023
  • Take a hay ride, watch a scary movie, visit a haunted house, or even turn your own home into one.
    Taylor Murphy, House Beautiful, 7 June 2023
  • Mulch vegetable plants with a thick layer (3 or more inches) of straw — NOT hay, not bark, not wood.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
  • Of sitting one morning across from him and telling him all of it: the fliers, Rockefeller Center, the police, the cold nights and the sirens, the nice people and the hay in the car.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Then women came to the grave, marked with red flowers, and cried out, sobbing, while his sons watched from bales of hay nearby.
    Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • There's a famous photo of players sitting on the sidelines trying to stay warm with their legs buried in hay.
    Jim Reineking, The Enquirer, 14 Jan. 2024

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