688 examples of sagging in sentences

Gray were his eyes, too, and his suit, a comfortable baggy suit with the slouch of the wearer impressed into it, the coat hiking center back, the pocket-flaps half in, half out, and the knees sagging out of press.

The fragment of a wall or plinth, covered with rank creepers, an archway of which the stones are sagging into final disruption, and many a tumulus of coarse brown grass are all that remain of the wide buildings which once surrounded the Ambarkhana.

I could already picture the gaping black windows, the broken, sagging ridge pole, and the crumbling chimney.

They grow in clumps by spring borders, and all their stems have a permanent curve toward the down slope, as you may also see in hillside pines, where they have borne the weight of sagging drifts.

In an alley of checkered light a buffalo with a wicker nose-ring, and heavy, sagging horns that seemed to jerk his head back in agony, heaved toward them, ridden by a naked yellow infant in a nest-like saddle of green fodder.

Waiting in the middle of a broad avenue of misshapen obelisks, a dilapidated barouche with a low body sagging the lower for debilitated springs, on either side its pole drooped two sorry specimens of crowbait.

As she disappeared Mr. Heatherbloom stopped an instant to gaze after her; but the prince, with sagging jaw and amazement in his eyes, continued to regard only him.

And the strain of that last sagging slide through the air was not to be relieved instantly.

I found that an occasional lump of sugar acted as the best rapid restorative to sagging spirits.

Mark Twain remarked about a dachshund that it seemed to want another pair of legs in the middle to prevent it sagging.

Now, some lizards are so long that they cannot keep from sagging, and their progress becomes a painful wriggle.

The two men lifted him bodily, an ignoble, sagging weight, into the car.

The right followed haltingly, sagging at hip and knee.

It was a mixed masculine multitude, fairly typical of time, place and occasion; stalwart men of the soil for the greater part, bearded and bronzed and rough-clothed, with here and there a range-rider in picturesque leathern shaps, sagging pistols and wide-flapped sombrero.

Certainly the cable was sagging in a curious fashion.

The door unlatched itself, swung inward hesitatingly, and hung wavering for a moment on its sagging hinges.

" Close on her words she heard the sound of footsteps and a sharp knock followed on the sagging door.

The regulator, Fig. 11, consists of a strong bellows supporting a weight of 370 pounds, partly counterpoised by 80 pounds in order to prevent the bellows from sagging.

Deep dreaming that night of fast days before, Sagging the walls with the pull of his snore, In his chamber above Thomas Muskerry lay snug, When the Devil this summons roared in his lug" The door of the Master's apartments is opened and Albert Crilly enters.

The rider was almost as far spent as his mount, for he went up the steps of the hotel with his shoulders sagging with weariness, a wide-shouldered, gaunt-ribbed man.

The second time was in the Valley of the Kings, where very similar passages, crowded with people, led him into a room cut of rock, fathoms underground, with what looked like a sagging chintz cloth not three feet above his head.

"Still sagging down, eh?" he commented, his eyes on the needle of the altimeter.

"'In rice, strength; in the Beni Harb, manhood!'" Nearer the land, ever sagging down but still afloatthough now at times some of the heavier surges broke in foam over the rail of the lower gallerythe Eagle of the Sky drifted on, on.

Lamely she moved ahead, sagging to starboard, badly scarred, ill-trimmed and awry, but still alive.

At the second pause, she was beside him, pressing her way in also beneath the sagging burden.

688 examples of  sagging  in sentences