jag

When hurling down the ball with a wobbling seam rather than looking to hoop it, some deliveries jag unpredictably off the surface after pitching.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

Since its buying jag began, the company has filed suit in federal court against a group of families the firm purchased property from, seeking $510 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Or has he been on a crying jag?

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023

Here’s another one for the “Kendall can’t stand to see his family get bullied” file: When Mencken makes fun of Roman’s crying jag, Kendall immediately shuts that joke down.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2023

“Maybe when that boy is mowing the front I’ll come over,” Biddy say, and I could see a cryin’ jag about to commence.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

We are told that he has frequent crying jags and bouts of insomnia, but we don’t feel his despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

He was nicknamed "two jags" by the press after it emerged he had two Jaguar cars.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

He immediately ruled out spasmodic dysphonia and asked Emmons whether she had experienced inappropriate laughing or crying jags.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

Her histrionics upon confessing what she’d done, and her subsequent crying jags, are not indicators of sincere remorse and preparedness to change, but additional manipulative tactics designed to sidestep the consequence of her actions.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2020

On her right shin, visible even in the dimness of the indoor light, a thin pink scar jags down from her knee.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The jagged wood pilings are likely from railroad trestles installed to carry boulders out to the existing jetty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

At the university, shelves groan with jagged pieces of spines, necks and legs that to an untrained eye resemble battered stones.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

McElwee stitches together the past and present to find new meaning in their seams, a jagged line that runs through time and points toward the future.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Cheslin Kolbe, who jagged off the same foot to ice Owen Farrell's ankles in the 2019 Rugby World Cup final, danced in at the end of that attack.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

In the distance, jagged lightning flashes across the sky.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

A dazzling runner, with a jagging step and sharp acceleration, fewer than 30 of his 72 All Blacks caps have come as a starter.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

Ohh, he does it again with his third offering, an absolute gem that swings in before jagging away.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2019

We bushwhacked until we came to a series of ditches, eight feet deep or more, jagging this way and that every few yards, sometimes intersecting with other deep, zigzaggy ditches.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

Bobbing and jagging, the path looks cluttered and wild, but it’s just how molecules move in space.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2013

The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron