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Example sentences for "sagged"

Lexicographically close words:
sagebrush; sagely; sages; sagesse; sagest; sagger; saggers; sagging; sagila; sagitta
  1. The working platform sagged so much that we were able to lay this cross beam above it.

  2. The platform sagged considerably at the center, because the span was fully eighteen feet; but the logs were large, and we knew they were strong enough to support our weight.

  3. He sagged against the pillows and thought of all those who had died since he had come to Pyrrus.

  4. The mechanism sighed and the hatch sagged open.

  5. He sagged back, and grinned up apologetically at McKay.

  6. His body sagged heavily, and the grin slowly left his lips, and a moan came from between them.

  7. But they tore away, one after the other, and sagged in his hold.

  8. Sheriff Buckley took the head, Kane the feet; the long, bony figure sagged between them and the tails of its dress-coat flopped as if pointing jocularly toward the ground.

  9. His head struck with a thump and his knees buckled under him as he sagged to the floor.

  10. His knees sagged under him and his arms fell limp at his side.

  11. This," said Porky, as the child in his arms sagged on his shoulder and seemed to sleep, "this is the worst thing yet!

  12. The fellow in the crater sagged wearily against the steep incline of the side of the pit.

  13. Kenniston's fist smashed the space-sailor's chin and the man sagged limp and unconscious with no chance to utter the cry on his lips.

  14. Kenniston's fist caught his chin, and the man sagged to the floor.

  15. When she began to speak he sagged forward over his cane, drinking in the verification of her incredible desire.

  16. He found somehow the power to stand firm, to hold her fast when she sagged down in his arms.

  17. His body felt weak and listless as it sagged on the bench, and he made it lie down there in the semi-darkness.

  18. Sagged down in his seat beside the Hindoo, the Wildcat reviewed a tolerably measly past.

  19. The Wildcat's jaw sagged open as far as the roots of his lolling tongue.

  20. Thankful for his escape from the crisis of the moment and a little bit shaken by the acute peril which had confronted him, he sat heavily at the pay table, and sagged down in his soopreem robes.

  21. He knew only that suddenly the net sagged emptily.

  22. The latter sagged beneath almost seven hundred pounds of net, and the little horse looked questioningly around.

  23. She was the cutup of the escapement department at the watch factory; the older woman's lips sagged at the corners.

  24. Tessie noticed that he sagged where he should have stuck out, and protruded where he should have been flat.

  25. Limply he sagged against the newel-post, a sorry picture of grief and pain.

  26. Malays sagged down, plunged screaming to the deck.

  27. Yellowjacket's lower lip sagged with senility or lack of spirit, Lorraine could not tell which.

  28. Bill Warfield never looked back, for Al's gun spoke, and Warfield sagged at the knees and the shoulders, and he slumped to the ground at the instant when Al's gun spoke again.

  29. It sagged in their arms like a dead thing, and Lorraine stepped back shuddering as they passed her.

  30. Her shoulders sagged under the burden of seventy-five years, but the flame of an unconquerable spirit burned in the keen black eyes set bead-like in her withered little brown face.

  31. He bowed his head, his shoulders sagged down, and, turning his eyes as if to keep me from seeing what was in them, he stared out over the convent garden.

  32. The next moment she sagged forward in her chair as if something in her had given way.

  33. They discovered that my weight sagged my hammock down to a height just suitable for the rubbing of their backs.

  34. Then one day another old beer-belly sagged in.

  35. A large section of the ferro-concrete wall had sagged away and collapsed, having suddenly lost its tensile strength.

  36. The Nipe sagged a little, relaxing all over.

  37. The Runt pulled down one eyelid, and, with his knowing grin, the cigarette, clinging to his upper lip, sagged down in the opposite corner of his mouth.

  38. He sagged in Martin's encircling arm as limply and as lifelessly as a sack of wheat.

  39. Despite his efforts, his mouth sagged open, and his tongue, swollen to prodigious size, burst through its proper limits and hung down upon his breast, broiling in the rays of the hot sun.

  40. His legs crossed and his chin sagged into the palm of his right hand.

  41. His head sagged and he stared moodily into the fireplace.

  42. With a sigh like a tired child's he sagged into the waiting arms and was lowered to the ground.

  43. Sinking deeper into his chair until his head sagged on his breast, he deliberated before replying.

  44. He sagged down in the seat, a cold perspiration starting out all over his body.

  45. His baby-blue eyes wore the mournful, distressed look of an offending dog; his once trim little moustache drooped over the corners of his mouth; his shoulders sagged and his feet shuffled as he walked.

  46. After a while he sagged down into the seat and allowed his baby-blue eyes to fall into a brown study.

  47. There was an awful grating sound as the heavy dome sagged a few inches.

  48. It sagged again with a shriek and a groan of protest.

  49. Jack Bracken walked in behind the old man carrying a silken sack which sagged and looked heavy.

  50. His shoulders sagged listlessly, his hands hung open at his sides, and his eyes were fixed on the ground.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sagged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.