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

The sound would jag around in our air for an indecisive second before the balcony’s occupants accepted it and sent their own guffaws to riot with it against the walls of the theater.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Shell-shocked, he suffered panic attacks and crying jags but seems to have settled down after a sleepover with a friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

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

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

Stripes of white, orange, and rust-colored veins swam through the jags, pits, and knobs.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

And then follows “Always and a Day,” an outright love song, but the sound is jagged, pounding rock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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

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

A small, goggle-eyed creature with pointy ears and a mouthful of jagged teeth has somehow become one of the defining consumer products this decade.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

The net was torn too jagged to make one big bag, but she could cut four squares and make two smaller rafts instead.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Deep hammered a consistent length and got the ball jagging back into the right-handers.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024

Shaping in then jagging back as he did with that final ball.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2020

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

He’d gone a little different with the Mohawk too, buzzing it close to his scalp and jagging it so it looked like a thunderbolt.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin