How to Use haggard in a Sentence

haggard

adjective
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  • She looked tired and haggard.
  • We were shocked by his haggard appearance.
  • For all the haggard songs and for all the fried eggs and bacon first thing in the morning for 35 years.
    — Bonnie Stiernberg, Billboard, 16 June 2019
  • The pilgrims were thin and haggard, their faces creased.
    — Will Hunt, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2014
  • Both of them were old and haggard by the time their last pictures arrived.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 June 2022
  • So Dickens says, on this day when the sun seems to have died, and the haggard glow of gaslight can barely brighten the mist.
    — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
  • On his way to a wedding, at the very door of the banquet hall, a man is buttonholed by a haggard and compelling stranger.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
  • Some have unsteady hands and haggard faces, a stark reminder of his early days there.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Or he could be bundled into a trade as the Guardians search for ways to improve their haggard offense from 2021.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2021
  • At the far left, the haggard visage of the procuress, finger pointing in defiance, eggs them on.
    — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • While their haggard parents waited to check in, bricks became strewn all over the lobby floor.
    — Jason Wilson, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The puppets, by design, look noble and haggard; life on Trash Island isn’t easy.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2018
  • My girlfriend is tired and haggard by the time the child goes home, and this causes friction in our relationship.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Both looked haggard and appeared to be speaking into a webcam, like those on the top of a laptop.
    — Masoud Popalzai, CNN, 22 June 2017
  • Kennedy looked cool on television; Nixon looked haggard.
    — Ray Locker, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
  • And these are just the immediate concerns of what will likely be a haggard nation.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2020
  • As the truck drove down a side street toward Harper, three haggard prostitutes approached the window.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Among them were drivers, like Richard Chow, who had gone on hunger strike and were now visibly haggard, and some who were too weak to get around without wheelchairs.
    — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The city sleeps less than even New York, and its permanent wakefulness leaves it haggard, in desperate need of a hair transplant.
    — Gary Shteyngart, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • Herndon once found Lincoln in a haggard state, having spent two full days trying to solve the old conundrum of squaring the circle.
    — Jordan Ellenberg, WSJ, 22 May 2021
  • Restrooms that looked pretty haggard, too, were refreshed with drinking fountains and new ceramic tile on the walls and floors.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • Similarly, there will be a trio of haggard publicists, all working to clear their client's good name.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • My face had become gaunt and haggard, my sallow skin formed shadows etched beneath my eyes that no amount of makeup could disguise.
    — Emily Listfield, Allure, 8 May 2021
  • The 79-year-oldfell into a deep depression, stopped eating and became a haggard shell of himself.
    — oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Jeffrey Wright — at 53, younger, leaner and less towering, nowhere near haggard, and African-American — was not on those lists.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The haggard spines of a once-proud pavilion now choked with encroaching vegetation.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The anguished scene that will stay with me for a long while came late, a moment of motherly longing, when Silvia, now grimy, haggard and delirious, thinks about her little boy.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • His piercing eyes, set deeply in his haggard face under a heavy black turban, stared belligerently at the camera.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Sep. 2020
  • When one Russian unit arrived in eastern Ukraine, it was quickly whittled down to a haggard few, according to one of its soldiers.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Last May he was arrested for driving under the influence and his haggard face was paraded around the world in his police mugshot.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018

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