Hag

//hæɡ//

"Hag" in a Sentence (30 examples)

"You've had two wishes already," the hag said, "but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. This is why you remember nothing."

An old hag of 50 years made me lustful propositions; she wanted to kiss me.

There is no arguing with the assertion of the great linguist Claude Hagège: never before in the history of humanity, has a language had a "comparable extension in the world to what English now has."

Hagåtña is the capital of Guam.

One day I, too, would like to be a mean old hag.

My friend threw the paper aside, sniffed at the odour of burnt meat, and suggested that the Hag was endeavouring to asphyxiate us.

Marie is an old hag.

The French linguist Claude Hagège estimates that one language disappears "every fifteen days," which is to say 25 annually.

And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.

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The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.

I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.

– What is that hag trend that is going on?

– The trend, hagmaxxing, is when younger men pursue relationships with hags.

Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution

Flamma lambentes (or those we call Haggs) are made of Sweat or some other Vapour issuing out of the Head; a not-unusuall sight amongst us when we ride by night in the Summer time: They are extinguisht, like flames, by shaking the Horse Mains

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew

And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode.

[…] upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, […]

The uplands are generally mossy, resting on clay of a yellow colour, covered by moss of various depths, which often break into what are called hags, or flow-moss.

[…] I had made sure to find him in the hag o' Coars-Neuk Moor, […]

The strongest nag that crosses th' hagg / Wi wots ta Fullod mill.

[…] the murky flag / Flaps on Turftennant's rushy hag."

The shallow slow-running groughs fed the hag with a trickle of coppery water.

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. In the winter light, large sandblasted granite tors, sugar-coated with ice, stand out[…]

hag […] is that part in mosses which is naturally or artificially cut, hollowed, hagged, or hacked; naturally by water runlets forming hollows, and artificially by, among other means, the cutting and removal of peat.

Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.

[…] on one occasion, where the bog had been cut away, a stump was discovered which bore evident marks of having been hagged [hacked].

Crowberry is particularly abundant on hagged peat and in cotton grass mires; it prefers drier ground, […]

How are Superstitious Men Hagg'd Out of their Wits and Senses, with the Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales, and Visions

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