haggard - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • look: They looked haggard, their chests sunken, black rings under their eyes.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she did this morning.

Modifies a noun

  • face: Holmes sat in a great, old-fashioned chair, his inexorable eyes gleaming out of his haggard face.
  • look: The people had a haggard look to them, far thinner than they should be.
  • eye: The man of the omnibus was there with haggard eyes.
  • woman: He watched as an old, haggard woman hobbled on, and the doors closed.
  • man: The haggard man sitting opposite me is an Iraqi Kurd, a poet.
  • frame: My whole haggard frame was enveloped in a huge blue flushing coat frosted like a plum-cake with ice and snow.

Used with adjective complement

  • look: She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she did this morning.
  • become: So if you are not giving your body all the nutrients it needs, your face will become haggard looking.

Noun used with modifier

  • face: Her hands were raw and bleeding from moving the blocks of stone, her face haggard.

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