hag

Example Sentences

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The camera lingers on the hag long enough that the shock value dissipates.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2025

Would ten hag benefit from a solid season not answering to critics every single game?

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2024

She escaped the witch, showing her mettle, But her brother’s in not-so-fine fettle: Grew a long, grasping tail While the hag brewed her ale.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

She tells him she’ll show him the way and steps into the flames, only this time she turns into a withered hag and burns up.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2019

I hated her instantly too, for I saw her plain for what She was: a hag, a stooping harpy, a feaster on the flesh of beloved brothers.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly