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Sentence Examples
These real soldiers are starting to look more haggard every day, obviously suffering from combat stress.
The worn canvas they hauled their belongings off with was nearly as haggard as their drawn expressions.
The two bandits, their haggard features grim with battle-blood, edged toward the tall warrior.
His muscular body was bent and haggard, he was exhausted but still fighting with everything he had.
Chloe read my thoughts and judged my appearance, which was haggard and exhausted.
I just hope they don't get even more haggard with all that worry than so many of them currently look.
His flawless face was now haggard with exhaustion, and she sensed his energy stores were almost depleted.
Her father was still there, but this time he was on the phone and his expression was haggard with worry.
It featured a ragged, haggard man who was supposed to serve as a warning about the consequences of drug addiction.
Manolo, the horseman, haggard after twelve hours in the saddle and a sleepless night, reached out to shake me fully awake.
In the end, the trip does not serve its purpose, and most come back haggard, with another week of drudgery awaiting them.
He gazed into the mirror and saw a haggard face with a light stubble growing on the chin.
It can be extremely destructive to our health, and a haggard and stressed face is not a beautiful face.
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.
The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame.
In addition to making you look haggard as you de-board, dehydration compounds the effects of jet lag.
De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte.
Osileani pulled his weapon in front of the crone's haggard faces, warning them off with a cautious step.
Death is the last enemy, that haggard person that comes ever nearer and nearer, and we have a horror of it.
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.
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Famous for his flamboyant style, the baron looked drawn and haggard after two nights in police cells.
His father ran a hand over his face, slightly haggard in his worry for his son.
I like many things about this book, but not the picture of Mr Foot, looking very old, haggard and grandfatherly, on the dust jacket.
A meek, self-effacing figure, he grows more haggard and needy as his hopes of business success and personal harmony crumble.
But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues.
In recent photos, however, he looked haggard and ravaged, his face a withered pumpkin atop a doughy gut.
Shortly after their killing spree, we notice John is having trouble sleeping, and he begins to look more and more haggard.
But she probably ought to be attending to that haggard look on his face instead of his apparel, pretty as it was.
She would arrive late looking crumpled and haggard after a late night, with straggly hair and bleary eyes.
Chris was the only one who didn't seem to look haggard and exhausted.
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.
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.
And also with those who today sit on footpaths with outstretched hands and haggard eyes.
I'm a shell of my former self, sallow and haggard and coasting entirely on a wave of artificial food additives.
Dressed in rags, with haggard faces, Maddock watched them shamble by.
He wore a haggard and mournful look except when he was drinking or playing on his flute.
He was the sole defendant to appear well-groomed, with the others in the dock looking haggard, and with scruffy beards.
And why do people experiencing high levels of stress appear so haggard and aged?
Where it had been lit up earlier by faith and enthusiasm, it had now become grey and haggard.
He is struck by the grace of the child huddled against his parents' worn and haggard forms.
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Today he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes and grief-written lines of his face.
She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she did this morning.
Every day, struggles followed one after the other, leaving the Belgian rider haggard.
The sorcerer looks haggard, exhausted, but otherwise uninjured.
She was so tired and haggard looking, it hurt him to see her that way.
Or of the fact that haggard was a Hillary supporter and wrote a song endorsing her candidacy?
Those who criticize the Duggars, haggard said, cannot empathize with their pain and disappointment.
But Sarkozy looked haggard when he stiffly walked out of the hospital Monday afternoon in his ubiquitous dark suit.
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.
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.
I saw him again yesterday and he still looks haggard and tired.
They interred her remains in a corner of the cabbage haggard.
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.
There are places throughout the night to offer a rate specific haggard.
He answers impatiently these poor people who leave with a haggard gaze and continue to look upwards instead of on the ground where to place the brick.
The small center of Olena is placed in the borders of the great woods of the Chianti, a haggard group of houses with the Church of a rural dimension in the middle, in an ancient atmosphere, but of great landscape suggestion.
He was worn out and haggard from days and nights of constant effort.
Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
Next day, DSK was perp-walking his way, haggard and grizzled, into infamy.
Senussi, haggard and emaciated in blue prison garb, appeared with other defendants in a steel cage and complained that Libya had broken a promise to the Hague to find him a lawyer.
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But if that phrase makes all you comp-lit majors think of Lermontov's Pechorin, think again: this haggard, middle-Âaged fellow is no dashingly depressive duelist or seducer.
Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting.
His haggard eyes were deep-set, sunken into their sockets from exhaustion.
Examples from Classical Literature
Even the stouthearted Captain and the faithful mate, blear-eyed and haggard from loss of sleep, were filled with wonder.
Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
Renmark stepped into the light, and she saw his face was haggard with fatigue and anxiety.
There were both of my parents, looking gray and haggard, bug-eyed and staring at me.
I have never seen Lucy since, and my haggard features and buttonless coat testify that the swamp doctor is still a bachelor.
Tarling was haggard and weary, in contrast to the dapper inspector of police.
The haggard Morrison followed obediently into a sombre, cool hovel which he would have distained to enter at any other time.
A bent, fattish figure in a shawl came toward him through the haggard, his wife's mother.
He looked haggard and exhausted, and his horse was flecked with foam and dirt.
He turned again to the judge with a smile that played like sheet lightning over his haggard face and inquired humbly.
He was haggard and hollow-eyed, and he carried a week's growth of beard on his chin.
His face was pale, haggard and, like the Aztec crewmen's, covered with stubbly beard.
The haggard face of the boy looked out from the surgeon's trestlework of the fractured arm and shoulder.
The old servant, who had slept on a sofa outside, looked haggard and unshaved, and stared suspiciously as he heard the order.
He had not spoken, and now they perceived that he was haggard, pale, wild-eyed.
The drawn, haggard mask that had overlain her face so many months was dissolved away in an utter unconsciousness.
I imagine the crime of Puseyism, in the eyes of most churchmen, is the crime of a pretty woman in an assembly of haggard crones.
She set a hand on his shoulder, and looked down into his ravaged, haggard countenance.
He looked wild-eyed and haggard, and I greatly fear his reason has given way.
In the dim light she could see how haggard and hollow-eyed he had grown.
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His clothes were travel stained, and he appeared haggard and careworn.
Although he was still a little haggard, his eyes were bright, his lips were parted in an anticipatory smile, his whole expression was engaging.
The biting finger of agony had drawn lines upon his haggard brow.
Lying, also dressed and also across the bed, not longwise, are a Chinaman, a Lascar, and a haggard woman.
These fasts and vigils made him meagre and haggard, and probably caused him to appear as if he hardly belonged to the world.
Through all the paint and disfigurement of the disguise, the fierce despair of that strong and passionate nature lowered, haggard and horrible.
Why mopes she, looking so haggard, with features expressionless and inane?
Morning found the man haggard and worn, wide-eyed from want of sleep.
At breakfast-time he looked worn and haggard, with a little fleck of feverish color upon either cheek.
A beam of light touching Ferry's face made his smile haggard.
The poor fellow's face was haggard, and his eyes showed the fear that was upon him.
Men stood speechless, haggard, wobegone, gazing at the desolation.
The officers, haggard but tireless, aroused them frequently.
Sleep forsook the unfortunate men, and their eyes grew wild and haggard.
Her fright left her trembling, with haggard eyes in her pale face.
His face was pale and haggard, and his eyes were bleared and heavy.
This time, a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner, before the face had dropped again.
McCoy passed the benediction of his gaze over the tall, heavy-shouldered man with the haggard, unshaven face who had joined the captain.
Winnie's small, pointed face was haggard and smeary with tears.
Miranda's pale, sharp face, framed in its nightcap, looked haggard on the pillow, and her body was pitifully still under the counterpane.
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Any one might have seen in her haggard face that there was no suppression or evasion so far.
But then it looked insincere, meretricious, affected, and always haggard.
He was haggard and unshaven, as he had been yesterday, but he stood upright again, and looked more like the Adam Bede of former days.
She was a mulatto woman, and I noticed that her face was haggard, with great circles under the eyes, while the eyes themselves were wide with some haunting fear.
The furnished room received its latest guest with a first glow of pseudo-hospitality, a hectic, haggard, perfunctory welcome like the specious smile of a demirep.
Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.
Her face was drawn and pinched, her sweet blue eyes haggard and unnatural.
I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance.
