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How to use hag in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Hag means a witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard. Example: “The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law.”

Examples of hag by meaning

nounA marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or...

  • The shallow slow-running groughs fed the hag with a trickle of coppery water.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101
  • The winter snow has collected amongst the eroded peat hags and is being actively reshaped into deep dunes and linear ripples by the strong winds whipping across the summit ridge.2023 October 12, Mike Billett, Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond, Saraband, →ISBN

verbTo cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).

  • Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.1956, Scotland's Magazine, volume 52, page 39

More sentences with hag

  • The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law.From the entry score off
  • The other two creatures behind the hag, before Sashkoth, were extremely hairy, disturbed-looking humans, who looked werewolvish.2015, Matilda Raj, “The Hag and the Relatives”, in The Churning Lake, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry werewolvish
  • “You dwarves really believe in that old hag?” The soldier continued without waiting for an answer.2012, Tad C. Rhoden, “Night Things”, in Don’t Call Me Hobbit: A Novel, Bradenton, Fla.: BookLocker.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 92. From the entry ahm
  • Just any old dumb hag who can cook and lie on her back?"1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 163. From the entry holy mackerel
  • Two girls lived in the tepee with the old hag and her warrior son.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 173. From the entry tepee
  • Hags are hags, they say, no matter what fancy name you may give them.1941, South Carolina Folk Tales: Stories of Animals and Supernatural Beings, page 47. From the entry boo hag
  • Quick, or I'll land you headforemost in that pond, you infernal old hag!"1912, B. M. Bower, Good Indian. From the entry headforemost
  • Obviously, the emergence of this "new school" of hagsploitation does not collide with the underground popularity of the retro hag movies.2014, Justyna Stępień, Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry hagsploitation
  • "From yonder hair-brained hag, The world, good faith and honour "Seek not, for lo! the bride Of thousand bridegooms she is."2011, The Collected Poems of Hafiz - Page 46. From the entry bridegoom
  • The hag, after seeing her threats had no effect on Liann, left her alone, though usually watched over by the vrock.2005, Trina L. Talma, River's End, page 28. From the entry vrock
  • This tunicate withered hag the Señora had my financial number.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 404. From the entry tunicate
  • Witches are sometimes called boo-hags instead of just hags.1941, South Carolina Folk Tales: Stories of Animals and Supernatural Beings, page 47. From the entry boo hag
  • An omarolluk hung with a red string by your bed (much like a hag stone) can prevent nightmares, and give you a better night's sleep.2020, Jai Harvey Wright, The Faeries and I: How I Discovered the Faeries. From the entry omarolluk
  • Sometimes they say, “I look like an absolute hag,” and sometimes, “I look like Haggis McBaggis.” This is an ugly old woman they seem to have made up.1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye. From the entry Haggis McBaggis
  • “They described increasingly narrow circles, reminiscent of the hag track (which are circles of coarse grass where witches reputedly dance at night) in order to apparently stir me up.”1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 98. From the entry hag track
  • It required a sketch from the life by Burton of the inky hag who was chief officeress of his brigade to put matters right at home.1931, Fairfax Davis Downey, Burton, Arabian Nights Adventurer, C. Scribner's sons, page 214. From the entry officeress

Meaning of hag

  1. noun A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
  2. noun An ugly old woman.
  3. noun An evil woman.

Full definition of hag

Questions about hag in a sentence

How do you use hag in a sentence?
Hag is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law.”
What is a short sentence with hag?
“Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.”
What does hag mean?
Hag means a witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.

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