haze – English noun declension

English noun forms of haze

Noun: haze
Singularhaze
Pluralhazes

Sample Sentences

  • Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain. [1772 December, James Cook, chapter 2, in A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, volume 1:]
  • A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery. [1895, H.G. Wells, The Cone:]
  • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. [2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:]
  • The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
  • The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.
  • And is it that the haze of grief
  • ⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great?
  • ⁠The lowness of the present state,
  • That sets the past in this relief? [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 41:]
  • In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret. [1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat, →ISBN, page 218:]
  • But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity. [1994, Michael Thomas Roeder, A History of the Concerto, page 312:]
  • Because he chose to be "a citizen of somewhere else," we glimpse him now only "through the haze of memory." [2005, Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, page 179:]
  • I've spent years in a haze, trying to forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink, and to forget... and to die, one day. [2017, Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, directed by Taika Waititi, Thor: Ragnarok, spoken by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson):]
  • Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film. [1998, Leonard I. Nass, Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC, →ISBN, page 318:]
  • Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes. [1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking, →ISBN, page 69:]

Etymology

1. * The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
2. * Possibly back-formation from hazy.
3. * Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”). See: Old English Nouns 'hasu'.