Sample Sentences forhaggard (auto-selected)
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She was listless with a haggard look from too many weeks of anxiety.haggard = worn
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Dad's face was haggard, his eyes bloodshot.† (source)
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The haggard, pale face of a boy slides into view, and after an initial jolt of alarm, I feel better.† (source)
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He wore a haggard and mournful look except when he was drinking or playing on his flute.† (source)
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Two haggard-looking fruit sellers carrying woven baskets had gotten into a territorial dispute.† (source)
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The boy sounded haggard, yet strangely determined; he had a fevered shine to his eyes.† (source)
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Their faces were pale and haggard, scratched and bruised.† (source)
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They thought he might have been having a heart attack, and Billy seemed to confirm this by going to a chair and sitting down haggardly.† (source)
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The haggardness of Mrs. Linton's appearance smote him speechless, and he could only glance from her to me in horrified astonishment.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Everyone looked slightly haggard, looked as though they'd be easily startled.† (source)
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The others wore windbreakers or leather jackets, and three of the four women were dressed in ordinary street dresses while the fourth, who was haggardly thin and dark, wore a sort of severely cut militiawoman's uniform with a skirt with high boots under it.† (source)
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The best of them perhaps showed itself in that freshness of aspect which was so discouraging to Mrs. Penniman, who was amazed at the absence of haggardness in a young woman who for a whole night had lain quivering beneath a father's curse.† (source)
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Bob's face looked haggard and careworn, as if he suddenly felt the weight of all his centuries.† (source)
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Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven.† (source)
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His appearance was new in more than one way; more was new than the shirt, or the jewel on his finger and minor gems in his cuffs, or even the fat, and the haggardness from unwanted thought that lit on him in instants between the turns of his performance.† (source)
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Louie would fall into a line of haggard men.† (source)
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