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
  • Most notably, the bride in the attic is no longer a devious axe murderer.
    Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Later on, Annie finds her mother's headless body in her own attic, adding to the ramping of the final moments.
    Erica Marrison, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That evening, Gibbs got his hot soak in the bathroom of Scheck’s loft in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The first two lofts Choey purchased consist of units 201 and 202.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
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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