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How to use haggard in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective, noun

Haggard means looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition. Example: “Pale and haggard faces.”

Examples of haggard by meaning

adjectiveLooking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.

  • Pale and haggard faces.
  • A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
  • The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.

adjectiveWild or untamed.

  • a haggard or refractory hawk

More sentences with haggard

  • His haggard eyes were deep-set, sunken into their sockets from exhaustion.From the entry deep-set
  • Those haggard hands which hovered, eaglesque, over the world, met with no check.1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xiii. 116. From the entry eaglesque
  • It flickered uncertainly, but it served to light up his haggard face and the solemn, betitled iron boxes lining the walls.1913, I. A. R. Wylie, The Little Partner. From the entry betitle
  • “That's only dirt—it will brush off.” But he looked at me with his haggard hopeless eyes and said— “It is mud.1911 October, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Journey”, in The Forerunner: A Monthly Magazine, volume II, number 10, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry defile
  • Prince, though only in his late 20's at the time, has a haggard look, dark-ringed eyes and a nervous, frenetic manner. . . .1990 January 12, Janet Maslin, “Movie Review: American Boy (1978)”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Jan 2014. From the entry talkaholic
  • Soon he had a haggard, curlyhaired woman around the waist and she was tugging at his beard and they were passing the bottle back and forth.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 44, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 227. From the entry curlyhaired
  • The King was now represented with a receding forehead, a lined and haggard face, a long nose, thick lips, slanting eyes, a hanging overjaw, and hollow cheeks.1993, The S S E A Journal, volume 23, page 66. From the entry overjaw

Meaning of haggard

  1. adjective Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.
  2. adjective Wild or untamed.
  3. noun A hunting bird captured as an adult.

Full definition of haggard

Questions about haggard in a sentence

How do you use haggard in a sentence?
Haggard is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Pale and haggard faces.”
What is a short sentence with haggard?
“Pale and haggard faces.”
What does haggard mean?
Haggard means looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.

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