How to Use bale in a Sentence

bale

1 of 2 noun

• The last batch of bales fell from the sky.
  — Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
• Once winter sets in, don't toss your bales.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
• Like Haňťa’s bales, those postcards are art.
  — Rabih Alameddine september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
• In either case, make sure the bales are made from weed-free straw, not hay.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
• Ideally there will be very few seeds or weeds in the straw bale.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2022
• Had a friend of mine that said a bale fell on him and hurt him pretty bad, though.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
• He was used in the background of group shots, sitting on hay bales.
  — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
• The huge bales are often dumped at sea and picked up by drug smugglers on boats.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 July 2023
• Then the machine drops a neat, round bale of hay into the field – hay, presto!
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• And now, Mikayla is grumpy, and Jace pouts on a hay bale.
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
• And now, Mikayla is grumpy, and Jace pouts on a hay bale.
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
• The sharks reportedly swam right up to the bales and took bites.
  — Kim Luciani, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• The challenge was to unroll each hay bale and find a clue in the center.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
• Stoeber had lots of leftover twine from years of feeding his cows bales of hay.
  — Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
• The package that fell from the sky was a 75-pound bale of cocaine.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
• Most carts are piled high with sand, bags of cement or bales of plastic bottles.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 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
• Limited seating in the form of chairs and hay bales will be available.
  — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
• The pair appeared to be in a rural area surrounded by grass and hay bales.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
• Joe couldn't stub his toe without ten people wanting to run at him waving bales of gauze.
  — CBS News, 31 May 2026
• 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
• That includes drones equipped with AI that could count hay bales or check for water leaks.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
• Another caller may be trying to trade a few bales of hay for a wheelchair lift.
  — Sarah Baird, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Add more variety in height by using hay bales as platforms to hold lanterns or pumpkins.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
• Few players in this class love football more than this guy, a former hay bale toss champion.
  — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
• The city fixed the immediate issues, then kept on hauling in garbage bales.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• To their surprise, several sharks ignored the swans and swam straight for the dummy bales.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• Kids can climb on hay bales or pet farm animals, while adults can sample hard cider or stroll through a nighttime lantern walk.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
• In one video, Lambert's husband grabs and loads a large bale of hay onto her pink trailer.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022

bale

2 of 2 verb

• Trees can be shaken, baled, and wrapped.
  — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Nov. 2025
• If there is a farm supply store near you, buy the twine in a large roll meant for baling hay.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2025
• Free tree shaking and baling, hot cider and cookies and small gift shop.
  — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Nov. 2025
• Rudy loved taking care of the various animals, baling hay, and working the crops.
  — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
• Two weeks after his irrigation, Ford harvested and baled his hay.
  — Patrick Linehan, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
• The idea was to highlight the role of women in agriculture, so each contestant had to have baled hay and done other farm work to qualify.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 14 July 2023
• The clothing is shredded to reuse in padding or insulation, or baled and sent to other countries.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
• The clothing is shredded to reuse in padding or insulation, or baled and sent to other countries.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
• Visitors can watch cotton being ginned and baled for a true Lone Star State experience.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2025
• So humans manually clean up each of the streams, picking out stray objects before the material is compressed and baled for shipping.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2022
• 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
• Women of all ages who have a history of baling hay and farming were invited to participate to represent their township (though now some live in villages and cities).
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 14 July 2023
• What doesn’t get sold from Goodwill or Salvation Army gets baled up and sold to textile buyer, likely to also end up in another country.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
• In the past, that material had to be hauled to Western Recycling then baled and taken by truck to Portland or Seattle to be sorted.
  — Cynthia Sewell, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
• On the other side of all this, the Pac-12 likely is pulling together some combination of streaming services during an industry drought with gum and baling twine.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 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
• Most operators simply bale their collections and blindly dispatch them to transit hubs in Eastern Europe or Dubai, where overheads and labor are cheaper.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
• For example, cotton remnants must be picked off steel mattress springs before it can be shredded or baled for sale to scrap markets, according to the Mattress Recycling Council.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024
• Sherman also sent boys to labor in fields around Southern California, picking citrus fruit, digging ditches, managing livestock and cutting and baling hay.
  — Zach Levitt, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• During the pilot, wheat straw was baled in Punjab and Haryana, India, under the supervision of the Laudes Foundation, a global nonprofit that works to combat climate change, nature loss and social inequality.
  — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 1 June 2026