Example Sentences

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Was he embodying the inner haggardness of the nation, stuck at home for months?

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2020

Doreen didn’t look much better, but the exuberance of her entry was enough to overshadow any haggardness.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

Washing, shaving, turning up his mustache with the little curling tongs, he observed with self-pity his increasing haggardness.

From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)

The haggardness of recent hardship was upon Carew's features, and a week's, or more, stubble of yellow beard covered his cheeks, yet the growth in nowise brutalized the handsome face.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

But her look of haggardness, the teeth pressed into her lips, the clenched hands, the chin carried forward in an expression of agonized supplication rebuked my egotism.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George