jag
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Or has he been on a crying jag?
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023
What Cronenberg has done instead is to concoct a hallucinatory jag about the tortuous process Burroughs went through in creating “Naked Lunch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
In just his second over, he got one to jag sharply and hit middle and off stumps with Shubman Gill offering no shot.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023
Here’s another one for the “Kendall can’t stand to see his family get bullied” file: When Mencken makes fun of Roman’s crying jag, Kendall immediately shuts that joke down.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
“Wa—” he began, but then he erupted into a coughing jag that sent the food he couldn’t swallow into Alec’s face.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
![]()
Shell-shocked, he suffered panic attacks and crying jags but seems to have settled down after a sleepover with a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
The line bends and twists, jolts and jags.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
The singer is still afraid of Covid, and she had crying jags about returning to Broadway because “I just don’t want to do musicals anymore.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
Please make sure you get all jags as soon as you can.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2021
Stripes of white, orange, and rust-colored veins swam through the jags, pits, and knobs.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
![]()
At the university, shelves groan with jagged pieces of spines, necks and legs that to an untrained eye resemble battered stones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Tied to the mast of his ship as he and his crew pass the singing sirens, adorned on the jagged rocks at sea, Odysseus screams out with pain and desire.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
German soldiers specialized in incorporating jagged chunks of shrapnel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Cheslin Kolbe, who jagged off the same foot to ice Owen Farrell's ankles in the 2019 Rugby World Cup final, danced in at the end of that attack.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Through its sheer, fat torso, Clare could see the forest beyond—the weedy tangle of ground cover, the moonlight falling in jagged shafts through the trees.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
![]()
Another left-hander and another ball jagging down the Lord's slope.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
We bushwhacked until we came to a series of ditches, eight feet deep or more, jagging this way and that every few yards, sometimes intersecting with other deep, zigzaggy ditches.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014
Bobbing and jagging, the path looks cluttered and wild, but it’s just how molecules move in space.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2013
Morkel follows up with beautiful ball jagging away from Cook.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012
The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
![]()