Example Sentences

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A dazzling runner, with a jagging step and sharp acceleration, fewer than 30 of his 72 All Blacks caps have come as a starter.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

Ohh, he does it again with his third offering, an absolute gem that swings in before jagging away.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2019

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

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