Example sentences for: haggard

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

  • Is Rider Haggard pale?

  • He looks enraged at having reached the limit of his spiritual resources, and his haggard self-doubt humanizes him.

  • 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.

  • Carl Jung once observed that it is easier to discern the presence of archetypes from the collective subconscious in works of pulp fiction by writers such as H. Rider Haggard than it is in literary masterpieces.

  • 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.”


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