stagger
Example Sentences
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Living on bread, butter and fruit, she became a stagier or unpaid apprentice at the bakery of Gerard Mulot, a master pâtissier, boulanger and chocolatier.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
The tableaux in some pictures are stagier than in others; a few push, uncomfortably, toward the grotesque.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021
The same techniques, however, can make Cameron’s stagier shots — those rooted in literature, art history and biblical narrative — a bit cloying.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2013
But the music falters: in dramatizing his novel, Capote has told a stagier story, and brought in more themes than he can orchestrate or develop.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when the winter time came round— "Season" 's a stagier phrase— The Am.
From Humour of the North by Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone)
Vocabulary lists containing stagger
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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Vocabulary from history writings about the Triangle Factory Fire
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An Excerpt from "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
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