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

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

Could we interrupt this hideous jag we’re on?

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

For several days she was on a laughing jag.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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

The train jags around another curve and I grasp the rails, looking toward the engine.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

There’s a jagged streak of black, burnt wood and ash-filled land.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

His nose for a gap, jagging step and instinctive unpredictability were England's surest sources of tries throughout the autumn.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 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