Haggai
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Examples of hag in a Sentence
Noun (1)
although she looks like a hag, she's really the sweetest old lady you could ever hope to meet
falsely accused of being a hag who had caused the plague
Recent Examples on the Web
Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Disguising herself as an old hag, the queen poisons her with an apple, ...
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 July 2023
The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life’s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind a series of egg paintings no one seems to understand.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
—Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
And one project seems to have cracked the hag's curse.
—Stratton Lawrence, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2021
Noun
Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Disguising herself as an old hag, the queen poisons her with an apple, ...
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 July 2023
The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life’s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind a series of egg paintings no one seems to understand.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
—Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
And one project seems to have cracked the hag's curse.
—Stratton Lawrence, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2021
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“Hag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hag. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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