jag

"I've had a bit of a writing jag and I've got quite a lot of songs, so I'm hoping that I can get an EP out as well as an LP," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

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

For several days she was on a laughing jag.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

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

The line bends and twists, jolts and jags.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022

Just think of poor Ben Platt in the film adaptation of “Dear Evan Hansen”: His crying jags, so potent on the stage, proved unfortunately memeable in the movies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Please make sure you get all jags as soon as you can.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2021

Not one of her snot-nose sobbing jags, but crying like her heart done broke.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

She shows me a plastic baby walker with a jagged broken leg and a Christmas Santa mug with no handle.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

German soldiers specialized in incorporating jagged chunks of shrapnel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The beep draws my eyes to a monitor screen with lit green numbers and a jagged line that spikes with each boop!

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

Another left-hander and another ball jagging down the Lord's slope.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Gurley finally produced a run of significance, jagging through the Patriots defense for 16 yards a run that would have been run-of-the-mill a few months ago but gave the Rams a glimmer of hope.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 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