haywire
Example Sentences
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His mind buzzing, the threads on his arms going haywire like they didn’t know which way to point.
From Literature
She looked sick, colors gone haywire, red around the eyes and blue-white around the lips.
From Literature
Ventyx has been developing treatments targeting a complex of proteins, called NLRP3, that researchers have found plays an important role in the body’s inflammatory response and immune diseases where that response goes haywire.
I had heard a bit about this rehearsal process, and the part of my mind that needs to understand was just haywire during those first few days.”
From Los Angeles Times
When an agency goes haywire, voters will at least know who to blame.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
