haywire

How To Use haywire In A Sentence

• The chronology is gloriously haywire but it reads quite naturally. Times, Sunday Times
• A haywire fembot goes loco at a square-dance; another gets post-coital mammary enlargement via remote control.
• I couldn't see an inch past my window, and the pilot couldn't navigate at all, because his instruments suddenly went haywire.
• It's about an old man named Eddie, who dies trying to save the life of a little girl when a ride at the amusement park where he works goes haywire.
• Mr. Hertzberg also offers some theories of why Mr. Matthews "went kind of haywire during the Clinton years": Hendrik Hertzberg: In Praise of Chris Matthews (Seriously)
• Danielle jumped up and down and clapped her hands above her head like a clockwork toy gone haywire.
• It was the equivalent of the air traffic control system going completely haywire. Times, Sunday Times
• Heavy rain and winds in Sydney saw the airport go haywire.
• But so far, studies haven't been able to tease out what it is in meats or dairy foods that may cause prostate cells to go haywire.
• Our narrator starts the record slightly haywire, a confused youth maxing out on the raw nerves of bitterness and hope.