How to Use jagged in a Sentence

jagged

adjective

• The top edge of the wall that once held it up was jagged and blackened.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• The ice is as soft as the powder skiers dream of, with no jagged edges.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• The scenery changes from city, rolling hills, jagged mountains...
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2022
• It’s shaped like an evil tulip with jagged teeth on the outside.
  — Lauren Joseph, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
• Barrero took a jagged route to the ball, mistimed his slide and saw the ball roll right by him.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2023
• The crowd is mostly silent, except for the jagged cries some cannot, do not, still.
  — Lydia Strohl, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• In our tests, this model produced jagged pieces of ice that were the same size and easy to crunch.
  — Eva Bleyer, goodhousekeeping.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• For the teeth: My go-to is slivered almonds, the more jagged and mismatched the better.
  — Michelle Stark, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• This is the right moment to jump off the cliff and hope to land on a pile of soft foam blocks instead of a row of jagged rocks.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• On the first day back to work, Jan. 3, the S&P 500 closed at an all-time high—and has traveled along a jagged downward path since.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 27 May 2022
• Your job is to shape the wound by removing loose and jagged portions.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2022
• The water here is known as the Northern Arm, a jagged inlet off the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
• Our whole lives felt jagged, slippery, but my shoes, two legs, two feet, one foot then the next did not.
  — Time, 26 Oct. 2022
• While the honing steel realigns those jagged edges, the results may not last very long.
  — Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 26 June 2023
• The western boundary is jagged, following 132nd street for the bulk of it.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2023
• The world remains a jagged place, filled with injustice.
  — Erica Funkhouser, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
• Some of the best fly fishing in the U.S. can be found in quiet streams in open valleys and roaring rivers at the base of jagged peaks.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2023
• Every jagged window framing the sea looked like a wound torn open.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Just down the road, a large pig farm looked peaceful in the sun except for a jagged gap blown in the concrete wall by a rocket.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• To come back to earth, swept into the many jagged realities of the present, is small damage.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• But even that comfortable, safe space had its jagged edges.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• Parts of jagged steel filled the air, red flames leaped some twenty-five feet skyward, and the roar resounded.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024
• Keep the rotary mower blade sharp to avoid jagged edges at the tips of the leaf blades that can encourage disease.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2022
• At the glacier’s terminus, harbor seals floated on the jagged, small pieces of ice calved from the headwall.
  — Jan Brett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• Her fringe was worn jagged and brow-skimming, rather than full, as before.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2023
• Lay out a blanket on the grass and watch as hang gliders and paragliders soar over the jagged bluffs and ocean more than 300 feet below.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• On her head, rows of jagged lines represent a hat or perhaps braids or curls.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022
• What Green Township road got its spooky name for the jagged cliff running up from Muddy Creek?
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2022
• Tucked between the jagged basalt peaks and moraines is No Name Lake, a turquoise gem popping out from the surrounding black rock.
  — Haley Nelson | , oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• In every direction, jagged limestone peaks pierced the bluest of blue skies.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024