jag

"I had worries about getting the jag because I don't want to get it, but I had also don't want to get the virus," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

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

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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

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

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

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

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

Your second shot is blind—you can’t see the green, which is set between large, jagged rock formations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

On better days, she strolled up to it, even hugging its jagged trunk and inhaling the earthy scent to lift her spirits.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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

When things settled down to something I could control, I opened my eyes and saw that my snow pants and the jeans beneath were ripped in a jagged line for about a foot.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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