Example sentences for: haggard

How can you use “haggard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here are some classics: Smollett's novel is Humphry Clinker (1771), not “Humphrey”; Richardson's is Clarissa Harlowe (1748), not “Harlow”; Defoe's is Robinson Crusoe (1719), not “Cruso”; Rider Haggard's is Allan Quatermain (1887), not “Quartermain” or “Quatermaine.”

  • But this is a magazine for a new market: young music fans who grasp the absurdism in Dolly Parton's act, who understand that Merle Haggard is a better singer than Garth Brooks, who see punk-influenced bands like the Waco Brothers and Wilco as a vindication of their idea of country music.

  • Bob was all too familiar with the risks of infection, thanks to me, an inexperienced, haggard medical intern.

  • Haggard's son, Marty, is speaking out, the article explains, because "his famous father is working on a biographical feature film that Marty says will be an outrageous whitewash of the truth."

  • Foul-smelling and haggard from a six-day hunger strike, ...


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