shag
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They spread poster boards across the cream-colored shag rug, shook up their paint pens and started to craft their messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
I’ve always appreciated a fur coat’s timeless and hedonistic glamour, and any lover of ’60s and ’70s fashion needs a shag coat to accompany their nights out in platform boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
She appeared at our interview with opaque cat eye sunglasses and her signature shag haircut stylishly mussed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
Arms folded, they considered the shag carpeting while their brokers talked about “potential.”
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
He had visited Camden Yards only once previously — many years ago, he shagged fly balls during batting practice while accompanying his father, then an outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Nico shagged flies during batting practice at Comerica Park and spent time in clubhouses much like his dad did as a teen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Golfers in those days provided their own practice balls and their caddies shagged them for the player.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 2, 2019
Later he shagged balls in the outfield with the rest of the pitchers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2018
And then Joe Pepitone got up and Doug and I shagged balls in the outfield.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
Cubs: OF Cody Bellinger is taking batting practice and shagging balls in the outfield, and he’ll continue to ramp up his baseball activity before a probable rehab stint in the minors.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Elsewhere, parent Catalina Varela, who’s stopped by after work, calls to a kid shagging balls on first base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
He’s spent recent games watching and shagging baseballs and bats.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
A few minutes later, he saw infield duo CJ Abrams and Luis García shagging flyballs.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
Mariners: CF Kyle Lewis is shagging flyballs and ramping up his baseball activities as he works back from a torn right meniscus that has sidelined him since June 1.
From Fox News ● Aug. 24, 2021
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