Sentence examples for Jagged from inspiring English sources

The word "Jagged" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe something that has a rough, sharp, or uneven edge or surface. Example: "The jagged rocks along the shoreline made it difficult to walk safely."

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Jagged

verb

Past of jag

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Rather than surrender, the remaining Caribs jumped to their death on the jagged rocks at Sauteurs Bay.

They should kill the lot of you!" So shrill and so loud were her screams that they brought down a jagged piece of glass that had clung on to the top of the window.

And when the lightning arrives – caused by heat, humidity and Andean winds, and accompanied by roaring thunder – it explodes in all directions burning jagged bolts into your retina.

Applying new labels to a timeless problem veils the jagged reality with woolly language – often used to justify actions that directly harm those most in need.

And the line is drawn with real pressure – whether crayon, pencil or charcoal – hard, dark and jagged.

Much of the south of this long, skinny country is jagged coastline, uninhabited islands, roads that come to dead ends, and impenetrable forests and ice fields.

Travelling light, I was blown away by big, jagged mountaintop glaciers and – more literally – the fierce westerlies that gusted summer long.

Just to list the series' most striking individual performances is to get a sense of the speed with which momentum jagged back and forth: Shaun Marsh's opening day century at Centurion, Johnson's brutal first-innings spell in the same Test, Hashim Amla's century or Steyn's reverse swing masterclass in the second Test, Michael Clarke's balls-of-steel ton in the decider.

As we crossed the border along the Pas d'Aspe – barely a crevice in the jagged peaks – I looked up to see, hovering above, the turrets of a chateau that appeared to have been carved into the rock.

Yesterday, all that remained of the lighthouse-like building was a jagged stump just 10m high.

Dazzle Ships will recreate the war contribution by the artists of a century ago: the creation of jagged patterns – related to contemporary vorticist and cubist styles – which distorted the outline of ships at sea, helping to hide them from enemy submarines and torpedoes.

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