How to Use hayloft in a Sentence

hayloft

noun
  • Upstairs is a hayloft and an office with a kitchenette and half bath.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Other structures include a garage, a hayloft and an old kennel.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
  • In one scene, when a young girl takes a fatal tumble from a hayloft, the sound cuts out entirely.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Upstairs in the hayloft were piles of old tires, bags of shipping peanuts, old couches, lumber.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here in the hayloft, that becomes a literal and urgent question.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The tiny hayloft would later become infested with lice and vermin.
    — Edie Kasten, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This individual is one of the latest in a family line to emerge from the old hayloft.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The world beyond them, viewed from the gaping hayloft doorway, is an impressionist blur.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the original stable, a vintage French chandelier hangs where there was once a hayloft.
    — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • Who would want a regular-old room, when there are haylofts with wood-burning stoves that once warmed the hind legs of Kind Arthur’s horse?
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Much of the film takes place in a hayloft where women from three different families congregated to deliberate and debate over each possibility.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Dec. 2022

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