How to Use craggy in a Sentence

craggy

adjective
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  • That’s somewhere between medium and medium-well, the moment at which the exterior becomes a lunar landscape of craggy, luscious browned bits and every bite reaches peak flavor.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 7 June 2024
  • The plump pieces of swai are craggy and crisp, with a light coating that sticks to the fish.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The sun cuts the fog above the craggy emerald peaks and glints off the stepped rice paddies.
    — Zandie Brockett, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The craggy nuts add pops of crunch to the spoonable casserole.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Above us was a gray, craggy world of rocks and dust—a piece of the moon jutting out of Eden.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Mountaineers stand atop craggy peaks and look out on the world.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
  • For a private place to stay, head to the craggy cliffside.
    — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Snow patches clung to craggy rock faces — a rare sight in the last gasps of summer.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Huge waves send sea spray dozens of feet into the air along the wild, craggy coastline.
    — National Geographic, 15 July 2019
  • This stunning loop hike climbs and winds along a ridge line between the craggy peaks of the cascades.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Both are made more dramatic by the sometimes 100-foot craggy cliffs of the gorge.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2017
  • There are 360-degree views of the valley, the undulating fjords, the craggy peaks of the Troll Wall to the north, stabbing the sky.
    — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 12 July 2018
  • The island is a craggy basalt rock that juts up from water so rough that boats cannot dock.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Parts of it are so dry the ground is sharp and craggy, with no vegetation.
    — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • High above the cardamom stood old trees whose mossy trunks and craggy branches soared hundreds of feet in the air.
    — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The starch will give the pork a craggy, super-crunchy shell—no egg wash or breadcrumbs needed.
    — Cathy Erway, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
  • There were piles of raw rocks on tarps, sold by the pound, and men with craggy hands standing behind crates of cheap agate slices.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Then flip them over and fill the craggy pockets with that garlicky butter.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Marguerita Bay was a stretch of rocky green hills that dropped off in craggy white walls, framing the shore and the narrow, sandy beach.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Land along the border cuts through cities and farmland, gulches and craggy mountains, and desert and wildlife preserves.
    — Terrence Dopp, Bloomberg.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Movement and melt carved the landscape over the course of millennia, leaving behind the craggy peaks and frigid lakes that dot the area.
    — Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • Onto the field, amid the chaos, strode White Sox owner Bill Veeck, a man with a wooden leg and a craggy face a wood-carver might love.
    — Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
  • Tree stumps made of glass sprout from five rock-like mounds, and at the center of the room, nestled in a sixth craggy habitat, stands a tree made of copper and glass.
    — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian, 19 July 2019
  • Tuscans take stale, crusty bread, tear it into big craggy pieces, douse it in good olive oil, and give it the old toss-toss with ripe 'maters and more of that oil.
    — Carey Polis, Bon Appetit, 1 July 2017
  • For the better part of two hours, we are stranded at a lighthouse station on a craggy island off the coast of Maine, sometime in the 1890s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The open spaces are wide, the rolling rivers are big, the craggy mountains colossal, and, as is well-known, even the sky itself seems bigger than back home.
    — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2018
  • The craggy skyline seems to be built from the splintered remains of ancient castles.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • One option is the ruins of an old monastery that sits in the northern hills and has magnificent views of the bay and the craggy rocks below.
    — Melissa Twigg, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Along the craggy dirt roads, women set up wooden stands to sell fruits and vegetables.
    — John Eligon Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The last Ice Age did a number on Jefferson, leaving it a craggy mass of lava flows and volcanic debris.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2024

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