stag
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The stag, who was eight years old, was one of two in the herd.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
"He was a lovely stag with a beautiful pair of antlers and was a big favourite with the public who walk through the park."
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Then, while out for my brother's stag do in a Liverpool nightclub, something happened that I haven't been able to forget since.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
Life at the St. George Reef Lighthouse — a so-called stag station where no women or children were allowed — was brutal and lonely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
“Boy, is my date boring. I don’t even know where he is. Why is a tough little rocket boy going stag to the formal? Do you wanta dance?”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
The central issue today, however, is that the world's two great economic superpowers are now facing off against each other like rutting stags.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Most of our pets don’t pull carts, hunt stags, herd sheep or detect drugs, where we need to ensure correct performance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
The fenced pastures for the bulls were now overrun with thousands of young stags and pullets, pecking at the trail of food he threw out from the golf cart.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
Stags with big antlers score more often than stags with small ones.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
There are four stags who graze on the huge branches of the world-tree, devouring the foliage and the bark.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph
He clambered laboriously from the shallows, the water draining from the bottom of his "stagged" trousers.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
He is stagged; there is a game playing, but what I know not.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
The tight driver's shoe and "stagged" trousers had not then come into use.
From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward
"For we don't really want to go to the seminary; we go to school here in Milton," which peculiar association of ideas rather stagged General MacKenzie.
From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks
Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."
From Time Magazine Archive
So you've been stagging this gentleman and me, and listening, have you?
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry
The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled; be was looking out, and feeing the officers he walked away.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
But too many of the cadets were "stagging it" that night.
From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"I should cut the concern," said Watson, "and take to stagging in Surrey."
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
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