HAY in a Sentence

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64 example sentences for HAY, such as:

1. Make hay while the sun shines.
2. Today we begin the hay harvest.
3. There's the hay, let alone the movies.
4. June came and the hay was almost ready for cutting.
5. A lark is singing over head, and the air is filled with the scent of hay.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hay
 n.  grass or other plants, cut and dried for fodder
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  June came and the hay was almost ready for cutting.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  Today we begin the hay harvest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
3  And every animal down to the humblest worked at turning the hay and gathering it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
4  Even the ducks and hens toiled to and fro all day in the sun, carrying tiny wisps of hay in their beaks.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
5  It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
6  In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
7  One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
8  They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
9  For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
10  The windmill had been successfully completed at last, and the farm possessed a threshing machine and a hay elevator of its own, and various new buildings had been added to it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
11  "The donkey who couldn't choose between hay and turnips and so starved," Isabella explained, interposing--anything--between her aunt and her husband, who hated this kind of talk this afternoon.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
12  --that was what they were singing, as they scooped and tossed the invisible hay, when she looked round again.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
13  There's the hay, let alone the movies.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
14  He had brought columbines and campions, and new-mown hay, and oak-tufts and honeysuckle in small bud.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
15  It is a farm belonging to Butler and Smitham Colliery Company, they use it for raising hay and oats for the pit-ponies; not a private concern.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence:
1  The hay was all got in; the trees were in their dark prime; hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between.
2  The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed. It was a bed to end all beds, almost as big as a tennis court and as thick as a bale of hay.
3  A lark is singing over head, and the air is filled with the scent of hay.
4  Many people with hay fever move to more salubrious sections of the country during the months of August and September.
5  The hay was all got in; the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn; the roads white and baked; the trees were in their dark prime.
6  Make hay while the sun shines.
7  A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
8  Outdoor concerts are fine for country singers, provided they involve cutting and baling hay from the seating areas before hand.