jag

Or has he been on a crying jag?

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023

What Cronenberg has done instead is to concoct a hallucinatory jag about the tortuous process Burroughs went through in creating “Naked Lunch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Could we interrupt this hideous jag we’re on?

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Twice Robinson got the ball to jag back from outside off stump, first to have Wiaan Mulder chop on, then for Khaya Zondo to be pinned leg before not knowing whether to play or leave.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2022

This was going to be the start of a real crying jag, I had the feeling, for a girl whose only hopes for the year were a sweet-sixteen party and a pink mohair twin set.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

There are jags of tears and “what ifs” even when you aren’t forced to place a child for adoption.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2021

Listening to it, usually after lunch in a quiet corner of the house, almost always sent her into crying jags.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 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

Far beyond the dunes, the blue jags of the Serran Range cut into the horizon.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Tied to the mast of his ship as he and his crew pass the singing sirens, adorned on the jagged rocks at sea, Odysseus screams out with pain and desire.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Throughout the earthquake zone, people without any proper equipment have been seen pulling victims from jagged piles of masonry and rebar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

In the plasters, his details are sharper, his jagged surfaces dangerous, his faces more emotive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Its upper floors stand ripped open to the sky, concrete hangs in jagged slabs and a smoke-blackened staircase disappears into darkness.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

His jagged toenails were green and yellow, like a tortoise’s shell.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

Morkel follows up with beautiful ball jagging away from Cook.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012

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