Out of kilter

Usage examples of haywire.

Jane, who started dieting about forty years ago at the age of twelve, the same time her adolescent hormones began to go haywire.

Though he had shown promising abilities during his childhood, the biochemical changes of puberty had caused his tolerance to go haywire, making his body reject the Veritas drug as rapidly as an unmodified human would.

As floodwater spills over the glass walls, temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen levels go haywire.

Chapter Forty-two With the environmental-control system in the terminal gone haywire and all the moist, overheating bodies crammed together, the atmosphere was suffocating.

It will be a haywire rig, with no safety interlocks, so use enough watch technicians to be able to catch trouble before it happens.

While the high-up mess of wavicles went haywire, fierce rays struck him like vicious sunburn, forcing him to close his eyelids to protect his pupils.

But if we're dealing with a CIA officer gone haywire, someone like that, the cases of the five couples may, in fact, be connected, may be serial killings.

I mean, you only use back-ups if the computer itself goes haywire, don't you?

Those are such ailments as hardening of the arteries, coronary heart disease, embolisms, and almost all the many forms of cancer-diseases where one or another body mechanism suddenly goes haywire, without any visible cause.

Those are such ailments as hardening of the arteries, coronary heart disease, embolisms, and almost all the many forms of cancerdiseases where one or another body mechanism suddenly goes haywire, without any visible cause.

He'll go home and try develop a haywire egg beater, and finish up playing with it while in Fawcett's care.

At 1:30 the Operations Center intercepted a report from the Air Defense station at Nakhodka to the intelligence office of the Marshal of the Air Force that their radar had gone haywire for nearly four minutes but that everything seemed to be all right now.

I simply gripped that haywired joint in one hand, opened Peewee's empty bottle with the other, swung over fast and opened the oxygen bottle wide-jerked my hand across and grabbed the valve of Peewee's bottle and watched those gauges.

He might have been anybodysomeone from show business, or a writer perhaps, on a haywire vacation of his own wild devising.

Is that water leaking from your eyes, or whalebones, or tailbones, or baseballs, or mothballs, or dictionaries, or pictionaries, or barbed wire, or haywire ?