jag

Example Sentences

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Brook was helpless when Deep got the ball to jag back from outside off stump.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2025

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

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

The sound would jag around in our air for an indecisive second before the balcony’s occupants accepted it and sent their own guffaws to riot with it against the walls of the theater.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou