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• I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.From the entry sister
• By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.From the entry luff
• Although patchworked and sagging, the roof proved impervious to the weather.From the entry impervious
• His trousers were sagging off his legs.From the entry sag off
• He hiked up his sagging trousers.From the entry hike up
• If we missed stays and failed to tack we would sag off to leeward, onto the sandbank.2015, Ian Nicolson, The Ian Nicolson Trilogy, →ISBN. From the entry sag off
• Today we’re having slow-cooked lamb nihari, sag aloo, lentil dal, pilau rice, green salad and seekh kebab.2015 July 6, Helen Pidd, “Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox?”, in The Guardian. From the entry nihari
• What happened?" He let out a long breath, sagging against the side of his car.2015 February 19, Gemma Halliday, Hollywood Confessions: Hollywood Headlines Mysteries book #3, Gemma Halliday Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry shut the fridge
• To prevent a long line sagging, it can be given intermediate support with a tingle plate.2013, Michael Hammett, Brickwork and Paving: For House and Garden. From the entry tingle
• Where the headquarters tent sags, water drips down and spatters on the table.1956, Langston Hughes, chapter 8, in I Wonder as I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 374. From the entry spatter
• If there is much length of line it will require tingling up to keep it from sagging.1915 February, “British Method of Laying Bricks”, in Building Age, volume 37, page 68. From the entry tingle
• And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt.1912, F[rancis] Bancroft, chapter III, in The Veldt Dwellers, 3rd edition, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, book IV, page 296. From the entry veldt
• An ozempic face may appear malnourished, deflated and sagging."2023 July 10, Imre Kusztrich, Dr. med. Jan-Dirk Fauteck, Pricking slim with Ozempic like Elon Musk: Anti-fat injections Ozempic, Wegovy…. From the entry Ozempic face
• For OLE, the same is true for sagging overhead wires.2022 August 10, Gareth Dennis, “How can we run trains when the heat is on?”, in RAIL, number 963, page 45. From the entry sagging
• As Dems’ fortunes appeared to sag after a summer burst of excitement, Bidenworld began to tamp down expectations.2022 November 9, “POLITICO Playbook PM: Biden takes a moral-victory lap”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2022. From the entry Bidenworld
• Hot water has always made my apricots sag.Quoted in 2014, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (page 10). From the entry apricot
• I sagged with relief, delighted to finally talk to someone who didn't speak Freedonian, and an adult besides.2011, Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places, page 49. From the entry Freedonian
• Common burn indicators include alligatoring, crazing, the depth of char, lines of demarcation, sagged furniture springs and spalling.2009, Kären M. Hess, Christine M. H. Orthmann, Criminal Investigation, page 483. From the entry alligator
• Our waistline will extend a few more inches at least, and our aging skin will blotch and sag.2008, Mary Jane Warr, Making Sense of Self-Esteem, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry blotch
• Kenny is beginning to feel dizzy and sags.2006, Don Otey, chapter 56, in Terror’s Mask, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 242. From the entry feel like
• Black adults, including Afristocrats like Cosby, have been engulfed in moral panic over baggy pants that sag almost beneath the behind.2005, Michael Eric Dysonn, Is Bill Cosby right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind, page 116. From the entry Afristocrat
• As always, its vast branches sagged heavily with wet washing – well, what would you expect with five fairylets?2005, Debra J Edwards, chapter 6, in Aggie Lichen; Pilp Collector, [Great Britain]: PurpleRay Publishing, published December 2008, →ISBN…. From the entry fairylet
• Near the schoolhouse was a tholtan, a tiny, half-ruined cottage with sagging thatch and the door off its hinges.1997, Vivien Allen, Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer, page 25. From the entry tholtan
• It does not suffer from warp, sag or curl.1992, Innovation, volumes 11-12, page 32. From the entry warp
• The smoke spread along the sagging vigas above them and little streams of liquid clay started down from the sod roof.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IX, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry viga
• Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 135. From the entry coffer
• One could visualize the bursting of mailbags and the roadfuls of snarled trucks hard by the sagging loading docks.1975, Robert John Myers, The Coming Collapse of the Post Office, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 43. From the entry roadful
• That sagging old rustbucket is designed like a garbage scow!1967, David Gerrold, The Trouble with Tribbles, spoken by Korax. From the entry rustbucket
• Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry grey

Meaning of sag

1. noun The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
2. noun A depression or dip in anything.
3. noun A place where the surface of the earth, a mountain range, a ridge, etc., sinks or droops.

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Questions about sag in a sentence

How do you use sag in a sentence?

Sag is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A line or cable supported by its ends sags, even if it is tightly drawn.”

What is a short sentence with sag?

“His pants were sagging low.”

What does sag mean?

Sag means the state of sinking or bending; a droop.