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Recent Examples of hayloft
Hemingway wrote in what had been the hayloft.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hayloft
Noun
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Rostov is exiled to the servants’ quarters in the attic, stripped of most of his possessions, and is kept under constant surveillance by a surly KGB operative (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson).—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The instrument had been lost for 50 years before it was discovered, abandoned, in the attic of a home in the British countryside.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Civic featured a stage 100 feet wide and 50 feet deep with a 100-foot-tall fly loft for scenery and an orchestra pit that could accommodate up to 100 musicians.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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For the first two weeks, Ms. Powell mostly stayed in the cabin loft, trying to repair the damage and return to some normality.—
Meridith Kohut,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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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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“Hayloft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hayloft. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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