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Example sentences for "haywire"

Lexicographically close words:
haystack; haystacks; haythen; haythin; haythins; haz; hazard; hazarde; hazarded; hazarding
  1. Reaching gingerly in through the haywire mass of cables surrounding the central components, he pointed to one of the coils and exclaimed in the tones of a Sherlock Holmes, "Ah-ha, my dear Watson!

  2. Chi Tung, popularly known as Ishie, was busy over a haywire rig, Chief Engineer Mike Blackhawk and Tombu beside him.

  3. Mike was squatting on his heels by the haywire rig, built into what looked suspiciously like a chassis extracted from one of the standard control consoles of the communication department.

  4. Even experts take time to set up klystrons, and it was three hours later before Mike was ready with the additional piece of haywire equipment which carefully piped RF energy into the plastic block.

  5. Red Brewer had plugged his electric razor into the lab circuit and he was running it over his pink jowls while I tried to discover what was haywire about the balance scales.

  6. Our lab scales being haywire might be the result of a being's nearness to it, or something.

  7. But maybe my imagination's going a little bit haywire tonight.

  8. Doggone, but my imagination is going haywire tonight!

  9. And thanks again for that little bit of haywire action of yours when you came aboard.

  10. That was the idea of my haywire actions," he said.

  11. That's why I want to find out what's gone haywire with it.

  12. Life detectors go haywire out of normal space, don't they?

  13. Like a broken field runner going absolutely haywire he dodged this way and that, and ducked under wings, or around parked planes.

  14. However, they might just as well have tried to pick off a haywire comet rushing down at them.

  15. With everything going haywire from the start, what other blows of Fate might be struck once the President was on his way?

  16. The blasted thing went haywire after I'd been in the air only fifteen minutes," the English youth replied.

  17. He's bumped into trouble, and his radio went haywire on him.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haywire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amiss; awry; balmy; bananas; bats; batty; broken; buggy; bugs; button; cockeyed; cuckoo; deranged; disarranged; discomfited; discomposed; disconcerted; dislocated; disordered; disorderly; disorganized; disturbed; fastener; flaky; flipped; fruity; girth; haywire; inoperative; lacing; loony; misplaced; nuts; nutty; perturbed; potty; roily; screwy; shuffled; turbid; turbulent; unsettled; upset