(n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
(n.) A part broken off; a fragment.
(n.) A cleft or division.
(v. t.) To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
(n.) A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.
(v. t.) To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Jags are doing a nice job of showing a 'worst case scenario'.
(2) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
(3) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
(4) The turbine housings, which are half-complete, resemble the jagged ramparts of a fort.
(5) She told the Jags their actions to improve the military sexual abuse crisis was "not enough" Gillibrand asked Harding which he believed had done their duty in the Aviano case – the jury or the convening authority.
(6) Is it a waste of money to spend this fantastic sum on one painting, a canvas depicting a mess of jagged female limbs?
(7) Biopsy specimen from deltoid muscle consisted of untypable fibers of varying diameters with jagged Z-lines and increased variability of myofibrillar diameters.
(8) The Jags' owner, Shahid Khan, is investing substantial sums of his own money into upgrading Jacksonville's existing stadium , and successful businessmen rarely spend their own cash for no reason.
(9) A breakthrough was already looking inevitable and, sure enough, in the seventh minute Bale embarked on another jagged dash down the left.
(10) Surfaces with poor cleanability before and after abrasion were characterized by pitting, crevices or jags.
(11) On the day of the accident, Simon Lowe, Jagged Globe’s managing director, flew to Kathmandu, on to Lukla, and then made the full day’s trek to her home.
(12) When it rains in Bogotá the clouds swallow up the jagged Andean peaks that surround the city.
(13) The reduced-quintinomial distribution provides theoretical results that describe the characteristics of the PND's quite well, accounting for the smooth or scalloped behavior of short-counting-time data, the jagged nature of long-counting-time data, and the Poisson-like character of very-short-counting-time data.
(14) He lifts his trouser leg to reveal a long, jagged scar on his left ankle.
(15) The cells of the stratum corneum are rough, jagged, and contain myriad niches in which bacteria dwell.
(16) Jaguars 20-7 Titans The boos are ringing out in Tennessee, where Jordan Todman just took the ball in on a five-yard run to restore the Jags’ two-score advantage.
(17) When they lifted them they saw through the tears the smiles of the doubters, their jagged teeth shining through oily jaws.
(18) The scenic drive along Bear Lake Road skirts broad meadows full of elk grazing beneath jagged peaks.
(19) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(20) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.
Spree
Definition:
(n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(2) When Google bought Boston Dynamics, it was in the midst of an acquisition spree spearheaded by Andy Rubin, the former head of Android.
(3) In a sign that the killing spree has left no sector of Norwegian society untouched, the royal court has announced that the 51-year-old was the stepbrother of Mette-Marit, Norway's crown princess.
(4) Stephen King, the chief global economist at HSBC, the former Goldman Sachs economist Gavyn Davies and Roger Farmer, a professor of economics at the University of California, told MPs on the Treasury select committee that it would be unwise to embark on a large-scale spending spree to boost growth while government debt remained high.
(5) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
(6) The banks, whose irresponsible lending spree did much to produce the crisis in the first place, are raking in squillions, the bulk of the hundreds of billions in bailout funds lent by the eurozone since 2010.
(7) By the time a second, more explicit warning was sent, Cho was near the end of his shooting spree.
(8) The Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, ascended to power last year after his father, who oversaw the World Cup bid and set in train the huge spending spree, handed over power.
(9) In what appeared to be a planned spree – Rodger uploaded YouTube videos in which he denounced women for spurning him and vowed to take “great pleasure in slaughtering all of you” – he allegedly started by stabbing three men repeatedly in an apartment some time before 9.30pm on Friday.
(10) The pattern of consumption (e.g., amount consumed per occasion, spree drinking) was also unrelated to impairment, and the critical neuropathological factor appeared to be the total amount of lifetime alcohol consumption.
(11) Apartment building spree: will it lead to a glut, or transform the way we live?
(12) I n March 2012, a 23-year-old petty criminal named Mohamed Merah went on a shooting spree – a series of three attacks over a period of nine days – in south-west France, killing seven people.
(13) But it was there in the resolve of Liverpool’s players, confidence drained and playing before an anxious audience, in the pragmatism of a manager prepared to omit from his starting line-up £113m of a £117m summer spending spree and in Johnson’s match-winning goal.
(14) Twenty minutes into the spree he took the bizarre step of making a 911 call in which he reportedly referred both to Islamic State and the Tsarnaevs, the brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013.
(15) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(16) He was arrested on Sunday after a shooting spree that killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside a popular Jewish community center, and a third victim outside a nearby Jewish retirement home in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.
(17) Soldiers went on looting sprees, and 1 victim of their marauding became a 12-year old boy who got shot for refusing to part with his bike.
(18) Most of the woes can be traced to businesses bought during a massive acquisition spree after 1999, when Sir John Bond was chairman.
(19) There are about 400,000 Nepalese workers in Qatar among the 1.4 million migrants working on a £137bn construction spree in the tiny Gulf state.
(20) The spree in summer clothes buying in April means fewer shorts, sandals and other seasonal items will be bought in coming months.