How To Use Haggard In A Sentence

The uncluttered arrangements make a perfect fit with Haggard's direct and soulful singing - an object lesson all round.
The kings of the heartogram didn't fail to impress, with a diverse crowd gathered, including everyone from young punks to soccer moms and even a haggard old bat dancing around in lingerie.
Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity. From This Beloved Hour
The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame.
De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte.

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Yes, Stephen had all the symptoms, what the doctors called the "diathesis," or look of consumption: nearly transparent skin, through which blue veins could be seen ticking, and a haggard face and a cavernous, wheezing chest. ‘Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel’
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
Coulter is a haggard looking CON watching the Republican party go down the shidder. Propeller Most Popular Stories
Kalifornia aside, the talented young star has done nothing to deserve such harsh comments, although her head shot is indeed “haggardly.” Y.P.R.: I Am Going to Die Alone
My maturity or my haggard face. Times, Sunday Times
They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo. Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone?
But she looked haggard in the morning. Emily Fox-Seton
He looked haggard and hid his face behind two scarves. The Sun
In that flashing glimpse, even as he reined and spurred to make his own horse leap sidewise out from under, Harley Kennan observed the scratched skin and torn clothing, the wild-burning eyes, and the haggardness under the scraggly growth of beard, of the man-hunted man. CHAPTER XXXVI
Khemsa hauled himself to the edge and stared over, haggardly, his lips working as he mumbled to himself. The Bloody Crown of Conan
Nicholas hardly dared to look out of the window; but he did so, and the very first object that met his eyes was the wretched Smike: so bedabbled with mud and rain, so haggard and worn, and wild, that, but for his garments being such as no scarecrow was ever seen to wear, he might have been doubtful, even then, of his identity. Nicholas Nickleby
But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues.
They were haggard and thin but strong and well armed.
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Right down to the bit about him looking like a haggard Tory. Times, Sunday Times
Vivienne leans haggardly against the wall between us.
Once I could shed tears — now my brain burns to madness, and the soothing stillicide of unutterable grief no longer washes my haggard cheeks. Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
One wept, face on her knees; the other two stared haggardly at nothing, one of them plucking aimlessly at her skirt. A Crown of Swords
But while Strait and McEntire continue to endure on the charts, Haggard and Jones are most effective selling concert tickets.
The scarred man pulls at his hat, a floppy felt affair which, constructed anaesthetically, does little more than conceal his long and haggard face. Beneath an opal moon
Even re-recorded, the disc was ignored by radio types who had long stopped programming Merle Haggard and George Jones.
Her father was still there, but this time he was on the phone and his expression was haggard with worry.
But she was freebasing cocaine similar to crack smoking, through transforming powder into base cocaine, and as the decade went on she was photographed looking disheveled and frighteningly haggard. Whitney Houston obituary
He complied of course, and stood shading his haggard face in the unwonted sunlight of the great window, looking as wan and unearthly as if he had been summoned from the grave.
Chris was the only one who didn't seem to look haggard and exhausted.
Haggard, frayed and cadaverously pale with his eyes sunk somewhere deep in the back of his skull, in the final scene he looks like someone who is about to die.
Her haggard face and melancholy expression elicited a murmur of shock from the assemblage of reporters as she moved to the podium and began to speak.
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Manolo, the horseman, haggard after twelve hours in the saddle and a sleepless night, reached out to shake me fully awake.
On the contrary, Mr Haggard, they have their part to play if every individual is to develop his potentialities to the full. HUMAN VOICES
These real soldiers are starting to look more haggard every day, obviously suffering from combat stress.
But for a man renowned for looking young for his age, he appeared haggard and pale for the first time, above. The Sun
One of the menaces, a favourite one according to Mr. Rider Haggard, was that those who did not attend should be made "biltong" of when the country was given back. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
Some are ragged drifters, but most disturbing is the sight of entire families - a haggard and exhausted father and mother, accompanied by a bevy of grimy children - sprawled around a campfire of twigs.
Here and there a desperate thief, with hungry eyes and thin haggard face, was climbing down through the gap, in rash hope of possible treasure. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
His hair was mussed, his features rather haggard.
‘Waaaayne… ‘Grandmother Eva began in her deep, hoarse and haggardly voice.
Rider Haggard, the full "honorific"/name for the title character. Archive 2009-05-10
Super 8 and old cine film can convert even the most haggard or non-descript landscapes into flickering beauties. Times, Sunday Times
Toygan means 'falcon, hawk'; toynak 'hoof'; tirnak 'claw'; tirmiklamak 'to rake, harrow'; tay 'colt' - which trots us off to English hagdon, haggard, haglet, harrier, and hawk. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
She walked past Emily and sat down on the couch, haggardly scrubbing her tear-encrusted face with her hands.
Nobody is too concerned that a Hollywood heart-throb is playing someone who in real life was barely 5ft tall and looked haggardly middle-aged when he was barely out of his teens.
She was lying on a sofa before an open window and looking rather haggard and miserable. Emily Fox-Seton
When Stacey saw Ed's haggard and disheveled appearance, she knew something must be terribly wrong.
Tonight, we will hear from the former volunteer at Haggard megachurch.
He looked haggard and stressed, and he perspired when he talked, which was his way. Daniel Goldin: The Death of a Nonprofit
Haggard head of the Evangelicals is as Bible babbly as they come, yet as can be seen in recent news he is as true to that as, well, a meth addict! Swearing by the Book - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
The sorcerer looks haggard, exhausted, but otherwise uninjured.
The worn canvas they hauled their belongings off with was nearly as haggard as their drawn expressions.
she looked haggardly out of her tent
His unit was this close to packing off his personal effects to his parents, as one of the photos I have is of Dad, noticeably thin and haggard, holding the box addressed to his mother.
He was pale and a bit haggard.
Peake is described in the Dictionary of National Biography as ‘Tall, thin, dark, and haggard gentle, gracious, unworldly, and unpractical.
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
He was haggard, unshaven, half manic with lack of sleep.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his face, all begrimed with smoke and gunpowder, wore an expression haggard, gaunt, and very weary. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
‘Put me on the flight to Taipei,’ Jake said haggardly.’
Apparently, Haggard would have us believe that buying crystal meth is like buying Girl Scout cookies when you're on a diet. Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Spitzer Fails to Qualify for Sex Scandal Olympics
As for me, well, the book's dedicated "to the memory of Sax Rohmer, the Baroness Orczy, H. Rider Haggard, E. Phillips Oppenheim, and many others," so I couldn't resist. Archive 2007-06-24
He coughed out once, almost like a yelp of pain and sadness, long draws of spittle forming in his mouth and running out his haggard jaw.
They’ll follow the sound of the energy discharge. his twin coughed into a bandaged hand, features haggard. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Haggard, 52, was exiled from the New Life mega-church he founded and told by church elders to leave Colorado after admitting “sexual immorality” and buying methamphetamines from a male prostitute. Ted Haggard: I’m back from ‘wilderness’
He looked over at Kate to see if she was out of the car yet just in time to see her take in a deep, shaky breath and let it out haggardly.
ADDG, with the leniency of someone who has been unjust in the first place, considered that Haggard's nerves might have been overtaxed. HUMAN VOICES
I saw him again yesterday and he still looks haggard and tired.
But I put her fan base in the same category as the people who donate to the 700 Club, Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart, or any of the long list of high profile conservative hypocrites whose racket is transparent to thinking people. Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand?
Abasio raised his head, his face haggard and drained of all emotion. A Plague of Angels
Shortly after their killing spree, we notice John is having trouble sleeping, and he begins to look more and more haggard.
She is looking old and haggard. The Sun
After an hour, Phillip carried one of the crates of bottles to the haggard, and with a corkscrew he deftly pulled the corks from them, handing one to each man.
He has filled out and looks less haggard than he did last season. Times, Sunday Times
Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their and down at heel, they slouched past.
Then, above and beyond them, his eye caught another faint face: haggard, hollow-eyed, searching. COUP D'ETAT
Nobody is too concerned that a Hollywood heart-throb is playing someone who in real life was barely 5ft tall and looked haggardly middle-aged when he was barely out of his teens.
He has filled out and looks less haggard than he did last season. Times, Sunday Times
I like many things about this book, but not the picture of Mr Foot, looking very old, haggard and grandfatherly, on the dust jacket.
She hadn't told Rhyme that she, like him, would never name a hunting bird, that she'd called the haggard merely "the falcon. The Coffin Dancer
From H. Rider Haggard's novel She, Jung found an embodiment of the anima.
Weller these days looks like a haggard old tramp wearing a dollybird wig. I am not Paul Weller « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
Famous for his flamboyant style, the baron looked drawn and haggard after two nights in police cells.
But she looked haggard in the morning. Emily Fox-Seton
Norman drank through two cups of black coffee, wiped his lips with a napkin, stood up and said haggardly, "I'm ready. The Complete Stories Vol 1
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
He stood there dazed and unheeding, his bonny brown hair rumpled down his forehead, his face haggard and careworn and boyish still. SUICIDE
Teddy "I'm a member of Mensa" Beale and the brain trust at the Discovery Institute ( "So far, we've discovered we're unable to discover anything but a vast liberal conspiracy") we've got fucking cubic kilocubits of right-wing Christian geniuses who seem unable to find their assholes with two hands, a flashlight, and Ted Haggard's meth-dealing 'masseur'. Pharyngula
A meek, self-effacing figure, he grows more haggard and needy as his hopes of business success and personal harmony crumble.
We surveyed the countryside and Mr. Haggard asked, 'Is that shim - mering white thing over there the cathedral?' Mexico
She is looking old and haggard. The Sun
Chloe read my thoughts and judged my appearance, which was haggard and exhausted.
It can be extremely destructive to our health, and a haggard and stressed face is not a beautiful face.
He gazed into the mirror and saw a haggard face with a light stubble growing on the chin.
From the haggard look, rag tag clothing and matted hair it was not difficult to identify her as the mad woman who roved the streets.
But for a man renowned for looking young for his age, he appeared haggard and pale for the first time, above. The Sun
His matted hair, his blood-shot eyes, his haggard looks, and torn and mean dress, derogated from the nobility of his appearance; and still less did he appear like the magnificent Count Eboli, when, to his utter confusion and astonishment, his counterfeit stood beside him. Ferdinando Eboli
In the end, the trip does not serve its purpose, and most come back haggard, with another week of drudgery awaiting them.
I just hope they don't get even more haggard with all that worry than so many of them currently look.
He looked haggard and could no longer go through a full day of work without showing fatigue.
His face is haggard; his fingers are gnarled and spindly; and across his lap rests the long stick he now uses to help him walk. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
It featured a ragged, haggard man who was supposed to serve as a warning about the consequences of drug addiction.
When her husband stood opposite to her, she saw that his face was more haggard. Middlemarch
I caught a glimpse of the haggard face and the glazed expressionless eyes.
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The bedroom wore a haggard look in the sick light of early morning, and his breath frosting in the thin air made him feel sluggish and old. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
The small, deep-set eyes in his thin, haggard face seemed to see nothing. THY BROTHER DEATH
Abasio raised his head, his face haggard and drained of all emotion. A Plague of Angels
An eyas was a hawk taken from its nest while still without feathers, but the haggard was a bird caught after it had gained adult plumage in the wild. From This Beloved Hour
Thus are we drawn into an endless life of humiliation, where we haggardly never turn off our televisions, for fear of disappearing.
Just look at virulently anti-gay 'hypocrites like the Reverend Ted Haggard and former Republican U.S. Gary Cohan: The Bullying Years: A Survival Guide for Gay Kids
It might have been fanciful to suppose that under their outer bearing there was something of the shamed air of two cheats who were linked together by concealed handcuffs; but, not so, to suppose that they were haggardly weary of one another, of themselves, and of all this world. Our Mutual Friend
III. iii.260 (442,7) If I do prore her haggard] A _haggard_ hark, is a Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
She was so tired and haggard looking, it hurt him to see her that way.
She persisted haggardly, ‘at least when I'm angry with you, I let you know why.’
Death is the last enemy, that haggard person that comes ever nearer and nearer, and we have a horror of it.
his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone
Her face was pasty white and she looked quite haggardly.
On the videotape bin Laden appears haggard, his beard streaked with white and the left side of his upper body immobilized, which is unusual; he tends to gesture with both hands when he is speaking. The Long Hunt for Osama
ElBruce, it seems litigant retard thinks calling attention to Haggard still being gay is fight’n words. sounds like she has a personal stake in haggard’s ‘treatment’. do we have another ‘ex-gay’ con artist like buttblight? lol! Think Progress » CPAC Conference Dissolves Into Right-Wing Civil War Over Gay Rights
His pale, haggard face struck her painfully. North and South
Slowly, haggard looks are replaced by calm ones. Christianity Today
Slowly, haggard looks are replaced by calm ones. Christianity Today
Suspects look ill at ease; the murder squad is full of tense, haggard men. Times, Sunday Times
In 2014, they are both older and look more haggard. The Sun
Dressed in rags, with haggard faces, Maddock watched them shamble by.
eyes were haggard and cavernous
He looked pale and haggard.
As the comments bandied about by pundits and columnists that Sen. Clinton was a "ball buster" (MSNBC Host Tucker Carlson), "haggard" (syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin on Fox News), and "big-bummed" (Kurt Anderson in New York Magazine) became a faint echo in the campaigning distance, would the second woman to run on a major-party ticket in the 2008 election cycle endure similar treatment? 'Sexism's Coming Out Party'
His muscular body was bent and haggard, he was exhausted but still fighting with everything he had.
Though haggard and distrait, Cooke was still every inch the buckra, or Jamaican planter. My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica
As a very young child he witnessed scenes which equalled anything from the imagination of Rider Haggard.
The sight of these symbols of foreign oppression recalled the haggard faces and toil-bent frames I had seen on my journey to Milan. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
During the late 1990's, Haggard's church sent a team to Africa to 'anoint', or spray down with cooking oil, entire cities in Mali such as Timbuktu in an effort to ward off demon infestations. Bruce Wilson: Ensign Church Head Endorsed Sex-With-Succubus Economic Theory
His father ran a hand over his face, slightly haggard in his worry for his son.
When she finally surfaced, she looked haggard and tearful. Times, Sunday Times
After an hour, Phillip carried one of the crates of bottles to the haggard, and with a corkscrew he deftly pulled the corks from them, handing one to each man.
In the midst of a violent and haggard existence Thomas takes an hour out of his day to practice piano in the modest living room of a quiet, pacific piano teacher.
Right down to the bit about him looking like a haggard Tory. Times, Sunday Times
She would arrive late looking crumpled and haggard after a late night, with straggly hair and bleary eyes.
He looked haggard and hid his face behind two scarves. The Sun
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
His pale, haggard face struck her painfully. North and South
The two bandits, their haggard features grim with battle-blood, edged toward the tall warrior.
AT the north of the Ringkjobing Fjord, not far from Nysogn, a wild, ragged-looking castle has dug its talons into the rocks, and stands with a haggard defiance fronting the fjord, which is as immobile and as chill as death. Thorkild Viborg
We only got two in the nets, but what we lacked in quantity, we made for in quality - a passage goshawk and a haggard red-tailed hawk.
Dinny! how can you!" cried Jack, angrily, as he saw the tears start into his brother's eyes, and that in spite of the sunburning he turned haggard and pale. Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers
I mean when he was very gray and kind of haggard looking. CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2007
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
He was stroking a buttery suede jacket and looked deeply hungover and haggard. Times, Sunday Times
Harrison's new collection, "The Farmer's Daughter" - a title redolent of Merle Haggard or off-color barroom jokes or both, depending on your referents - contains three stories that feature, among their sprawling casts, several lusty adolescent boys (including one with a clubfoot and one who's a werewolf); an aged rancher, who, at 73, on his "last conscious day" of life, gingerly gropes a NYT > Home Page
Pen had the boxes almost all to himself, and sate there lonely, with bloodshot eyes, leaning over the ledge, and gazing haggardly towards the scene, when Cora came in. The History of Pendennis
The vines were thick and heftily wooded, larger than any plant life a desert dweller could ever imagine, and more voracious than the most haggardly pack of wolves.
I'm so sorry, Grandmother, "he said haggardly" I don't know what came over me. Curse of the Shadowmage
If you've only time for lipstick, opt for a sheer pink for porcelain complexions and plummy or medium-red for darker skins, otherwise you'll look haggard, not hot.
Nobody is too concerned that a Hollywood heart-throb is playing someone who in real life was barely 5ft tall and looked haggardly middle-aged when he was barely out of his teens.
When her husband stood opposite to her, she saw that his face was more haggard. Middlemarch
His figure, tall and thin, was well adapted to the character he represented, and his mask, which depictured a lean and haggard face, worn with care, yet fiery with crazy passions, exhibited, with propriety the most striking, the knight of the doleful countenance. Cecilia
Like all the street children, he is thin and haggard.
I'm afraid this is where we part ways, old friend," he said haggardly. Curse of the Shadowmage
She is haggard, pale, and her hair is matted with blood.
Nader spun the immigration official a line about how the application was very urgent because I was a journalist in a hurry and we took our seats alongside a haggard Afghan flicking worry beads between his fingers.
Later in the film, Richard, a gaunt, haggard, disease-ravaged poet defenestrates himself before the eyes of his best friend and former lover, the achingly frustrated Clarissa Vaughan.
III. iii.260 (442,7) If I do prore her haggard] A _haggard_ hark, is a Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
In 2014, they are both older and look more haggard. The Sun
The arrival of Tartarin, haggard, thin, covered in dust, with blazing eyes and bristling chechia cut short this enjoyable Turco-Marseillaise orgy. Tartarin De Tarascon
At last the Lancastrian commanders emerged, haggard, dishevelled, a mass of wounds from head to toe. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
There were still some remains of her make-up from the day before, smudged mascara underneath her eyes, a thin line of eyeliner all making her look exhausted and almost haggard.
It was ordered into a frontal attack as part of a botched tank offensive. As dawn broke, survivors staggered back, ‘haggard, bloodshot-eyed, slavering and rolling their bare-teethed heads’.
They walked down steep alleyways, scooter-torn and transected by wind-ruffled tapestries of clothing and bedding, and on every other corner there lurked a little shrine, with candles and doilies and the lifesize effigy of a saint, a martyr, a haggard cleric. 'The Pregnant Widow'
She was lying on a sofa before an open window and looking rather haggard and miserable. Emily Fox-Seton
Though haggard and distrait, Cooke was still every inch the buckra, or Jamaican planter. My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica
She was plain as a wren, too, and haggard as any other widow, making it difficult for me to guess her age. NO BODY
In it Haggard admits to what he called a lifelong sexual problem. CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2006
About 160 people sat elbow to elbow on folding chairs to hear Haggard sermonize about sin, love and forgiveness. Ted Haggard's New Church, St. James, Draws 160 In Colorado Springs
In recent photos, however, he looked haggard and ravaged, his face a withered pumpkin atop a doughy gut.
My maturity or my haggard face. Times, Sunday Times
Super 8 and old cine film can convert even the most haggard or non-descript landscapes into flickering beauties. Times, Sunday Times
His flawless face was now haggard with exhaustion, and she sensed his energy stores were almost depleted.
His face is haggard; his fingers are gnarled and spindly; and across his lap rests the long stick he now uses to help him walk. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
They wear the haggard, elated looks of newly freed prisoners of war, their mouths dangling open in jellied smiles, their eyelids at three-quarters-mast. The World's Toughest Competition
When she finally surfaced, she looked haggard and tearful. Times, Sunday Times
At last I turned my haggard, burning eyes upon her murderers -- four of them there were and all staring into those cruel, black waters below and not a word betwixt them. Black Bartlemy's Treasure
‘Yes, nurse,’ Dann replied meekly, grinning at her despite his pale, haggard look.
I was a child, a boy of eight or nine, and I was weary, as was the woman, dusty-visaged and haggard, who sat up beside me and soothed a crying babe in her arms. Chapter 12
Only haggards, bums, and barflies wandered the streets this late.
Squalid babies, with wan, pathetic faces, pullulated on the doorsteps; they showed from behind dingy windows at the breasts of haggard women. Without Prejudice
She had been charged with being as wild as _haggards of the rock_; she therefore says, that _wild_ as her _heart_ is, she will tame it _to the hand_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
We dance here in Apia a most fearful and wonderful quadrille, I don’t know where the devil they fished it from; but it is rackety and prancing and embraceatory beyond words; perhaps it is best defined in Haggard’s expression of a gambado. Vailima Letters

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