How to Use hag in a Sentence

hag

noun
  • People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2025
  • They're also known as hag moth caterpillars.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 20 June 2026
  • Martha’s Vineyard also has knife-wielding men in masks and creepy sea hags!
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • And nor are any of the spooky figures, which range from 1950s housewives to toothless hags.
    — The Week, TheWeek, 7 May 2026
  • There’s an undercurrent of anxiety under all of it, outside of the sea hag.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • Grotesque sea hags, killer clowns, demonic self-help books and more plague the town and its mayor, Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys).
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?
    — Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
  • But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
    — Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 June 2026

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