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haystack
[ hey-stak ]
noun
- a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
haystack
/ ˈheɪˌrɪk; ˈheɪˌstæk /
noun
- a large pile of hay, esp one built in the open air and covered with thatch
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
see needle in a haystack .Example Sentences
Finding an endangered shark nursery in a vast ocean is like finding a needle in a haystack.
We really need domain experts in all different aspects of clinical care, and the science behind them, to help us find all the needles in haystacks.
The women hid in haystacks, which the soldiers speared with pitchforks and then set on fire.
The more people you have working on a problem, the more likely you are to find the needle in the haystack.
Plus, we figured there’d probably be a few interesting needles in the haystack.
But that trend also makes this GOTV mission largely needle-in-haystack.
The judges have seemed serious about finding a legitimate hit act in the audition haystack.
Henry laid his brother down and stretched his aching arms, while Jess began to burrow into the haystack.
They climbed over two stone walls, got across a brook somehow with the heavy child, and arrived at the haystack.
And the children crept quietly to the noisy little brook not far from the haystack.
The man and the youth ask to sleep for the night upon a haystack, and stop in friendly talk with Mirèio.
To look for him in a big city like this will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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