CRAGGY in a Sentence

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1. From its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
2. The crowd swarmed ashore and soon the forest distances and craggy heights echoed far and near with shoutings and laughter.
3. Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAGGY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
craggy
 a.  rugged and uneven; abounding with broken rocks
 a.  (of a landscape) abrupt, cliffy, steep
Classic Sentence:
1  Even the snaggy craggy oak-trees put out the softest young leaves, spreading thin, brown little wings like young bat-wings in the light.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
2  Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
3  We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
4  I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
5  The crowd swarmed ashore and soon the forest distances and craggy heights echoed far and near with shoutings and laughter.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Above these, were range upon range of craggy steeps, grey rock, bright ice, and smooth verdure-specks of pasture, all gradually blending with the crowning snow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
7  His nose was thin and craggy, his eyebrows bushy and twisted into witches' locks and a lush growth of hair sprang from his ears, giving them the tufted look of a lynx's ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence:
1  From its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
2  He's older, a little more craggy and definitely a lot more wrinkled, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is about to stalk across movie screens once more