jag

Example Sentences

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Brook was helpless when Deep got the ball to jag back from outside off stump.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2025

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

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