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.”

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

  • Plastic surgery made Roseanne Conner look less like a haggard mom than like, well, a TV star who's had a lot of plastic surgery.

  • Is Rider Haggard pale?

  • Cage has the same flamboyantly haggard (and toothy) look he had in Vampire's Kiss (1989), yet this time the actor is grounded.


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