(a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
(a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
(a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(a.) A fierce, intractable creature.
(a.) A hag.
(n.) A stackyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Before that time I had taken in little beyond the juvenile productions of Captain Marryat, GA Henty, RM Ballantyne, Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, all works of adventure and travel, which influenced me to the extent that by the age of 30 I had spent eight years out of the country.
(3) Redknapp wore a haggard look as the thrashing was played out, forever demanding answers from a badgered Kevin Bond at his side as his players wilted out on the pitch.
(4) It had a congregation of more than 14,000 and Haggard became so prominent that he paid several visits to the White House of President George W Bush.
(5) Instead it was the pope who gave the week’s truly ambitious address on the theme of Europe , when he spoke to the European parliament on Tuesday, asking if the continent were now an “elderly and haggard” grandmother, one whose best days were behind it.
(6) But there is no doubt that Haggard is trying to move on and start to rebuild his life and old career.
(7) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(8) Now Haggard says he wants gays and bisexuals to come to his new church, whose first few meetings will be held in the garden of his suburban home.
(9) Haggard now says he is heterosexual, but had gay urges because he was molested by a man when he was a child.
(10) Haggard talked openly about what he calls "my scandal", but also clearly felt that it left him an undeserving sinner.
(11) By Friday, as haggard-looking finance ministers from the G7 club of wealthy nations flew to Washington, the world's financial system was on the brink of disaster.
(12) But hearing them all do Haggard's right wing anthem "Oakie from Muscogee" is a nice enough moment, but we wonder if anyone in the audience has actually familiarized themselves with the lyrics.
(13) "He just got on a plane in Frankfurt," Haggard said.
(14) Haggard said the scandal that wiped out his first career as a pastor had given him a strong insight into suffering and that made him a better counsellor for others who were under stress.
(15) singer Nate Ruess, and a country music jamboree featuring Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Blake Shelton.
(16) Consonant discrimination was assessed using the Four Alternative Auditory Feature Test (Foster & Haggard, 1979), presented in quiet.
(17) They mix it up tonight, leavening their own songs with a medley of Merle Haggard tunes, Waylon Jennings' Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way, Tyson's MC Horses, and their own signature drinking song, It's Time To Switch To Whiskey – played, tonight, well past the point at which everybody has – amalgamated with Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
(18) The revelations destroyed Haggard's career almost overnight.
(19) The formerly burly general was not disguised but had false identity papers and looked haggard and much older, the officer said.
(20) Ted Haggard is back and about to start preaching again.
Hunting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunt
(n.) The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(3) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(4) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(5) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(6) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
(7) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
(8) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(9) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(10) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(11) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(12) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(13) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(14) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
(15) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
(16) Hunt, however, responded to the move on Sunday morning by describing it as opportunism.
(17) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(18) When Jeremy Hunt says the NHS is coping, he needs to really look at what is happening.
(19) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(20) He calmly and politely volunteered: “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.