haggard

Example Sentences

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But in 2024, the South American country produced only about one percent of the world's total crude output, said OPEC, its industry left haggard by years of underinvestment, mismanagement and US sanctions.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

“Caesar had now been performing for eight years,” Mr. Margolick writes, “and, thin and haggard, wore every week of it . . . it had happened in spurts rather than in increments.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

"I did the one pair of wheels - I will say they're absolutely haggard," he laughed.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

He wore the haggard shell-shocked expression everyone wears after leaving transit.

From Slate • May 19, 2025

I could only imagine how many haggard and depraved eyes were regarding me hungrily from behind the closed shutters.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole