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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sag.

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Examples

  • There were pouches under the eyes, the skin sagged from the cheekbones.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • As I handed her the cage, I saw the way her gown sagged from the weight of opals.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.

    The Red One 1918

  • A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, and by peering, querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.

    The Red One 1918

  • Mireva’s mouth became an O of shock, then her expression sagged.

    Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010

  • The sword sagged in his grip as he flailed helplessly, trying to fend off the next attack.

    The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985

  • Mr. Aholiah Luce, of the Purgatory Hollow section of Smyrna, stood at bay on the dirt-banking of his "castle," that is, a sagged-in old hulk of a house of which only the L was habitable.

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • She 's just let go all holds and kind of sagged down, mentally and physically.

    The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

  • She's just let go all holds and kind of sagged down, mentally and physically.

    The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

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