A village church steeple had a jagged hole clean through it.
The seismograph pens, which had been tracing steady parallel lines on the paper, began tracing jagged lines instead.
He put on his shoes, picked up his rod, hammer and compass, and started climbing over jagged rocks to the top of a crumbling low butte that was to be the next survey location.
Above, the broad figure of the fat man was visible in silhouette against the jagged opening in the wall.
The jaggedfragments of masonry Brett had knocked from the wall lay as he had left them.
He looked at the great jagged opening in the wall--like a jigsaw picture with a piece missing.
He was half-way down the hill when with a crack the heavens opened and the white jagged lightning fairly hissed by him.
This compelled us to desist and fall to baling with might and main, leaving the raffle and jagged end of the mast to bump against us at the will of the waves.
Sylvia took a last look over the wide prospect of jagged ridge, ice pinnacles and rock spires.
To the south, but quite close, the long thin ridge of the Aiguille des Charmoz towered jagged and black against the starlit sky.
Soon to our right lay a great semi-circular field of ice, in places piled high, looking cold, jagged and dangerous.
Instead, the smoke rose out of a jagged rock, and there was not a cabin roof or sign of one anywhere.
Back of it was the same V-shaped cleft across which a cord had held drying pelts, the cord was still there, and below it he could see the dark skins amid the confusion of jagged stones.
There were dense forests in deep canyons on the mountainside, bare and jagged heights, the graceful sweep of valleys, promontories leaping out from the mainland like mammoth crocodiles guarding the bay.
Her face between the black folds turned whiter and she shrank back against the jagged wall: and when his eyes flashed again with a wild eager hope she involuntarily crossed herself.
There was blood on my hands, but they had been gashed by thejagged rocks.
I toiled on, cutting my hands and legs with the jagged rocks, but making some progress, till at length I had covered the greater part of the distance; then I could do no more.
Across the valley to the west nearer mountains, all amethyst and opal tinted, stood bold and inscrutable, with jagged peaks thrust into the blue to pierce and hold the little clouds that came floating by.
A jagged outcropping cut straight across and Casey saw how yesterday he had mistaken that ledge for the rim of the butte.
Miles away to the south, pale violet, dreamlike in the distance, the jagged outline of a small mountain range stood as if painted upon the horizon.
The shaft of the spear had broken off, but the jagged piece with the head attached stuck out just over the hip.
A groan burst from the wounded man as Simcoe with some effort drew the jagged spear from the wound.
Here is a broad, fair line, and here is a short, jagged one, telling of terrible troubles and misery.
It took the name of Polypody from its jagged leaves, upon which the seeds or spores appear in bright orange spots.
The hardest rocks remain in jagged points and ledges, and the softer parts are in time washed away, leaving caverns of all shapes and sizes.
Half the Spaniards were destitute of any weapons and the battle-axes and spears which had been saved {188} were jagged and broken.
Spears, javelins, arrows, heavy war-clubs with jagged pieces of obsidian were hurled upon the Spaniards on the causeway.
A great, jagged piece in the middle of the puzzle was missing--the key piece which would tie everything together.
The great, jagged piece, so long missing, was suddenly plopped right down into the middle of the puzzle, and now it didn't fit.
And its tongue was jagged at the end like a fork, and with this fork it could sweep whatever it chose into its mouth, and devour it at its leisure.
A twist of the lantern to the left sent a luminous bar of light along the breast of the darn, and revealed a jagged break, fully six feet wide, through which the freed water poured with the speed of a millrace.
Then, somewhat to their consternation, they saw a jagged wall of rock towering before them.
Beyond it rose a smooth, slimy wall, and overhead was a low jagged roof dripping with moisture.
Almost as he spoke a sullen peal of thunder echoed among the hills, and an instant later a jagged flash of lightning blazed on the surface of the creek.
On the opposite side of the stream the wall fell sheer into the water, and overhead was a jagged roof that glittered and sparkled in the rays of the lantern.
A sudden fierce blast of wind compelled him to crouch close to the ground, and just as he rose a jagged flash of lightning turned the blackness into a purple glare.
The opposite shore was rocky and lined with pine trees, and over their tops could be seen against the horizon the jagged crest line of the Kittatinny Mountains.
Before they turned in for the night, the moon had risen over the jagged mountain tops, casting a glittering path of silver across the lake.
The jagged shapes of the mountains were now exceedingly clear, showing alp above alp into the far blue distance.
Having spent a full ten minutes sharpening his jagged antlers on a dead cottonwood tree, he marched up to Greta's fir tree, leaned his full weight against it, then gave forth a most terrifying roar.
Traveling here with ease, she wandered on and on until with a little start she found herself recognizing a certain jaggedrock formation.
A little way down on the jagged rocks were the boilers and engines of the Pilgrim.
They found it an easy task to attach the grappling irons, then with a cable attached to Swen's small power boat to drag the first two barrels to the dry surface of the jagged reef.
The collar was a little jagged at the edge, and so came the long scissors to cut off the jagged part.
On the one hand, they showed like jagged rocks that had been deceitfully overveiled by sunlighted spray; on the other, like a calm and secure harbor shining through what had looked to be a dark and weary way.
It bore a scar running clear across the back--an ugly, jagged scar that they had heard Jimmie describe.
Scarcely had the schooner won clear of the jagged ledges when the full force of the tumbling waves was felt.
As he brought it up to view, the boys could see a jaggedscar running clear across the back.
Looks as if the whole side of the ship had been torn away," stated Ned, as the submarine crept slowly past the jagged wound.
He is a fool who seeks that he cannot find; and you a superlative fool to seek in a wilderness, where you are jagged and torn by prickly briars, for what you believe cannot, without the miraculous intervention of Ceres, grow there.
Groping about on the jagged summit, trying to identify the rock by its form, his foot plashed in a pool of water.
Then, as if satisfied with the mischief it had done, it rolled lazily across the floor, and finally stopped under the table, an inert, jagged bit of granite.
On the other side were jagged hills, all carved in the solid rock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jagged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
