How to Use bale in a Sentence

bale

1 of 2 noun
Definition of balenext
Synonyms for balenext
  • Leaner walked in front of the fake hay bale at 30 yards.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Then the machine drops a neat, round bale of hay into the field – hay, presto!
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The challenge was to unroll each hay bale and find a clue in the center.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Had a friend of mine that said a bale fell on him and hurt him pretty bad, though.
    — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The sharks reportedly swam right up to the bales and took bites.
    — Kim Luciani, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Once the bale feels cool in a few days, begin planting.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Fill out the look with hay bales and the muted tones of heirloom pumpkins.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In the meantime, a quick quiz: True of False, British cabbies must drive around town with a bale of hay in the boot?
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Ideally there will be very few seeds or weeds in the straw bale.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The bales of cocaine were seized by a New Zealand navy ship deployed to the area last week.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 8 Feb. 2023
  • To the east was a machine shed and several rows of hay bales, to the west a green pasture.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • With the Blue Ridge as its backdrop and round hay bales all around, the place could pass for a wedding venue.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The huge bales are often dumped at sea and picked up by drug smugglers on boats.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 July 2023
  • Climb up on a wagon, get cozy on a bale of straw, and hope your friends can give you some comfort.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The cow was hungry and was munching eagerly on a bale of hay.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • My cousins want to share A single bale of the cotton our mothers Picked as children.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Sometimes 80 percent of the garments in a bale are usable.
    — Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The rubber was then shredded, dried and packed into blocks, which look like chewy granola bars the size and shape of hay bales.
    — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • Most carts are piled high with sand, bags of cement or bales of plastic bottles.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The calm scene is a far cry from the revving tractors and bales of hay blocking major highways just a few miles outside the city.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • To their surprise, several sharks ignored the swans and swam straight for the dummy bales.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • Back on the boat, the team dropped dummy bales of cocaine into the water next to fake swans to see which object the sharks preferred.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • Then women came to the grave, marked with red flowers, and cried out, sobbing, while his sons watched from bales of hay nearby.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • In one video, Lambert's husband grabs and loads a large bale of hay onto her pink trailer.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The city fixed the immediate issues, then kept on hauling in garbage bales.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Remove any seeds, and also remove the bale strings to loosen up the flakes – the compressed bale sections – before adding to the compost pile.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Another caller may be trying to trade a few bales of hay for a wheelchair lift.
    — Sarah Baird, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • The villas are tents in the style of a traditional Indonesian bale.
    — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
  • So, people in Ghana buy bales of clothing and are immediately in debt for each bale.
    — Wayne Elsey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Johnson pointed to Amazon Prime logos peppered throughout one of the bales.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
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bale

2 of 2 verb
  • Tennessee gained all of 76 total yards in the second half to bale out Jones, who muddled through and should have something to prove to the Vols.
    — Charles Hollis, al, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The system isn’t designed to take durable plastic items like storage bins, flip-flops, pens, toys, sunglasses, or hampers because items need to be sorted and baled with like products.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There, Eco-Cycle will catalog data about polybag generation rates, bale them, and send them to Trex.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Two weeks after his irrigation, Ford harvested and baled his hay.
    — Patrick Linehan, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Sales Manager Leigh Shaffer said that while the fire totally destroyed the warehouse, the more important sorting and baling equipment was not damaged.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 13 May 2023
  • Tennessee gained all of 76 total yards in the second half to bale out Jones, who muddled through and should have something to prove to the Vols.
    — Charles Hollis, al, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The system isn’t designed to take durable plastic items like storage bins, flip-flops, pens, toys, sunglasses, or hampers because items need to be sorted and baled with like products.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There, Eco-Cycle will catalog data about polybag generation rates, bale them, and send them to Trex.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Two weeks after his irrigation, Ford harvested and baled his hay.
    — Patrick Linehan, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Sales Manager Leigh Shaffer said that while the fire totally destroyed the warehouse, the more important sorting and baling equipment was not damaged.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 13 May 2023
  • Tennessee gained all of 76 total yards in the second half to bale out Jones, who muddled through and should have something to prove to the Vols.
    — Charles Hollis, al, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The system isn’t designed to take durable plastic items like storage bins, flip-flops, pens, toys, sunglasses, or hampers because items need to be sorted and baled with like products.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There, Eco-Cycle will catalog data about polybag generation rates, bale them, and send them to Trex.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Two weeks after his irrigation, Ford harvested and baled his hay.
    — Patrick Linehan, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Sales Manager Leigh Shaffer said that while the fire totally destroyed the warehouse, the more important sorting and baling equipment was not damaged.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 13 May 2023

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