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• Every one's up on a crag where he'd got stuck and had to ab off.1995, Matt Sarnet, Climbing: Issues 151-153, page 93. From the entry ab off
• Had a pterodactyl swooped down from those old-time crags, it would hardly have been out of place.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 97. From the entry pterodactyl
• We followed a trail into the Flatirons, soaring triangular crags that were named for their resemblance to Victorian-era clothing irons.2016 August 31, Tony Perrottet, “In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry clothing iron
• The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories. From the entry con
• The sea birds that bring up their families on lonely and remote oceanside crags are scarcely attacked by enemies at all.1951, Alan Devoe, This Fascinating Animal World, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, page 122. From the entry seamlessness
• The flock spent most of the next day about Chasm Lake, just under the northern crags of Meeker.1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42. From the entry meeker
• She shall not dodge me though she hide in unfathomed waters, or in the earth's bosom, or in lonely woods, or on crags!”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35. From the entry unfathomed
• She was looking at the hills as if to see there the first and unbetrayable Miss Brodie, indifferent to criticism as a crag.1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 3, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan. From the entry unbetrayable
• Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry acclivity
• At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and…. From the entry pyramidal
• Hidden away among steep crags and dense forests, Chisà is the starting point for several interesting hikes, and also for possibly the most thrilling via ferrata in Corsica.2010, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Miles Roddis, Neil Wilson, Corsica, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 166. From the entry via ferrata
• Swallows along the Burmese coasts, as elsewhere, made these edible nests in rocky crags, often on hilly islands (especially available in the Mergui Archipelago and the Tavoy Islands).2004, Michael Walter Charney, “Esculent Bird’s Nest, Tin, and Fish: The Overseas Chinese and Their Trade in the Eastern Bay of Bengal…. From the entry esculent
• It seems a piece of the mountain, rock of its rock, wedged indistinguishably between the crags—itself a crag, but one over which the spirit has passed.1965, Nikos Kazantzakis, “Pilgrimage Through Greece” (chapter 17), in P. A. Bien, transl., Report to Greco, London: Bruno Cassirer…. From the entry montigenous
• Mad jackhares started and checked in the blue glare and high among those clanging crags jokin roehawks crouched in their feathers or cracked a yellow eye at the thunder underfoot.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter XIV, in Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West, 25th anniversary edition, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry jackhare
• More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21. From the entry bird's-eye maple

Meaning of crag

1. noun A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
2. noun A rough, broken fragment of rock.
3. noun A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.

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How do you use crag in a sentence?

Crag is used as a noun. For example: “Every one's up on a crag where he'd got stuck and had to ab off.”

What is a short sentence with crag?

“Every one's up on a crag where he'd got stuck and had to ab off.”

What does crag mean?

Crag means a rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.