Sentence examples for haggard face from inspiring English sources

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"haggard face" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in English.
It is generally used to describe someone who looks tired, ill, or exhausted. For example, "He stared into the mirror and saw his haggard face, deep creases etched into his forehead."

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A drawing sketched in 1889 in a few strokes shows a haggard face with sunken cheeks.

Freddie's creased and haggard face is a road map of failure.

Roberts has been described as having "a haggard face with dried-up ovaries".

But in his haggard face I saw no triumph at all.

Bill was big and thick-shouldered, but he did not look strong; he had a shambling walk and a haggard face and always appeared to be convalescing from something.

Some Romanian commentators slight him as a well-meaning former trade union leader out of his depth.But Mr Ciorbea has lately been proving cynics wrong, an effort that tells on his haggard face.

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All of a sudden the devastated looks on their haggard faces is explained.

The pitiful, haggard faces, are clearly suffering the morning after the night before.

"Those haggard faces, the bodies I saw, they were just youngsters, hipsters.

It comes not from the government, but from others who walk the same streets with tired feet and haggard faces.

"PALE and haggard faces, lank and bony figures...boys of stunted growth, and others whose long meagre legs would hardly bear their stooping bodies".

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