shagging

present participle of shag

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shagging
Verb
  • Cameras captured a heartwarming scene of a father and son leaping into the air, screaming and hugging each other in disbelief and joy, as McIlroy's ball dropped into the cup.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The fugitive runs for it, crashing through clotheslines made of jump ropes, crashing on the floor several times, climbing the bike racks and leaping over the wall to his secret sanctuary.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That means skipping the laundry list of tasks and emphasizing outcomes.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to conventional risk factors, like lower body mass index and older age, skipping breakfast and eating dinner late are independently associated with osteoporosis, according to a new study.
    Shiv Sudhakar, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The state has yet to provide any contemporary evidence of doubt that this crosswalk — on the road bounding the southern edge of the Pulse property — was a fitting part of the memorial.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Neither do the police, nor the Ring cameras affixed to the facades on several neighborhood homes, though at least the latter capture footage of kids bounding through their front doors, arms splayed like wings, into early morning’s opaque embrace.
    Andy Crump, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • One clip shows a man in a dark suit standing on the vessel’s side before springing into the water.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • John’s score nimbly dances with the pratfalls and springing traps, never leeching them of their primal, juvenile laughter, but also treating the film’s stuntmen with the same dignity as the Martha Graham ballet company.
    Tim Greiving, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Perry has been loping around the world on this tour for four months.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That’s even if the movie is uneven dramatically, weighed down by traumas and break-ups and breakdowns in the later stretches, and with too many shots of Aishe (Uyghur) jogging toward her future.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers found that jogging slowly burns visceral fat (deep abdominal fat).
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Yankees are better with Volpe on the roster, so Boone is going to continue trotting him out there as long as his shoulder is playable.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Sophie Turner is set to headline Prime Video’s upcoming Tomb Raider series, stepping into the role of the iconic globe-trotting archaeologist.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After debuting on Great American Pure Flix in 2023, A Thousand Tomorrows lassoed a whole new fanbase by galloping onto Netflix.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And the reason why has to do with growing concerns that progress in AI development may not be galloping ahead as fast as industry insiders touted just a few months ago—and growing indications that all the AGI talk was stoking inflated expectations that the tech itself couldn’t live up to.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Shagging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shagging. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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