Example Sentences

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Murray, all scampering pace and jagging sidesteps, would be a crowd-pleasing pick.

From BBC • May 5, 2025

Shaping in then jagging back as he did with that final ball.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2020

We bushwhacked until we came to a series of ditches, eight feet deep or more, jagging this way and that every few yards, sometimes intersecting with other deep, zigzaggy ditches.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2014

Bobbing and jagging, the path looks cluttered and wild, but it’s just how molecules move in space.

From Scientific American • Jun. 28, 2013

The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron