Example Sentences

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It became clear to me that something larger was happening in cosmopolitan LGBTQ+ communities: queer men were reclaiming faggot.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2020

I had singed mine, too, with a faggot, but now it had grown long again and came to my waist.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with a word of command, naur an edraith ammen! he thrust the end of his staff into the midst of it.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Before heading for the scree slope, they’d each gathered a faggot of firewood, and prepared a little piece of fire to bring with them.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Hobden dived into the prickly heart of the faggot and took out a dormouse’s wonderfully woven nest of grass and leaves.

From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard