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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