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"Haggard" in a Sentence (23 examples)
He looks haggard.
You look positively haggard.
It was a pale, wild, haggard face, in a great cloud of black hair, pressed against the glass.
I kept thinking, thinking of the pale, haggard, lonely little girl on the cold and desolate side of the window-pane.
Just as I was raising a glass of wine to my lips, I was startled by a picture at the window-pane. It was a pale, wild, haggard face, in a great cloud of black hair, pressed against the glass. As I looked, it vanished.
Tom looks haggard.
His face was lean and haggard, and his brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones.
Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer. Her chubby face and his haggard, angular visage were both turned up to the cloudless heaven in heartfelt entreaty to that dread Being with whom they were face to face, while the two voices—the one thin and clear, the other deep and harsh—united in the entreaty for mercy and forgiveness.
Her features and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot with premature gray, and her expression was weary and haggard.
Her face was haggard and thin and eager, stamped with the print of a recent horror.
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Pale and haggard faces.
A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
Then there was a pale, care-wrinkled woman, not old, but haggard, and already with streaks of gray among her hair, like silver ribbons; one of those women, naturally delicate, whom you at once recognize as worn to death by a brute—probably, a drunken brute—of a husband, and at least nine children.
I looked at the morning / After being up all night / I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light / I looked out the window / And I saw that ragged soul take flight
By the end of two weeks there isn't a county in England where he hasn't pledged his holiness six different ways — which is not to deny that intermittently he has visions of himself as a haggard apostle of the life renounced, converting beautiful women and millionaires to Christian poverty.
a haggard or refractory hawk
No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock.
1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day
He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm
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