How to Use stag in a Sentence

stag

1 of 2 noun
  • Maybe there was even a stag film.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Smart walked up and down a path in the park at a safe distance from the stag.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • While sitting on top of the stags, the monkeys groomed their backs and head.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Without the other knowing, each must choose to hunt a stag or a hare.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2011
  • Adams said that the stag, or male deer, has very identifiable antlers.
    — Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Think of a lion's mane, a peacock's feathers or a stag's antlers.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
  • View this post on Instagram A crown for each of the three stags.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2019
  • Alina awakens from a dream about a giant stag with enormous antlers.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • It was made of water, but not helpfully, a stag walked inside.
    — Katie Peterson, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
  • These stags are in peak-rut form, all vying for the attention of the hinds in estrus.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But proximity to stags, bulls, and bucks during the rut should get your heart rate up.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The stag’s antlers have regrown since their annual shedding in spring.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • My son, Cheetah Boy, went to only one prom, stag, and at the last minute.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
  • Similarly, frog, hog, pig and stag.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • At nearly 5-feet tall, this majestic stag can be lit in a choice of three different shades.
    — WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Sabertooth cats also lived among the dire wolf, stag-moose, muskox, giant short-face bears, bison, and mammoth.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Consider a group of hunters who can choose to hunt a large prey together (the stag), or a small prey alone (the rabbit).
    — Boris Babic, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • With the stag and doe, even people not attending could still party together.
    — Shivani Gonzalez, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The night Donna was attacked, Regan’s first cousin held a stag party for his friends.
    — Ruth Padawer, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Animals dot the sides, including a running stag, birds and a rabbit.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2022
  • If someone spots a hare and decides to go after it, the stag escapes and everyone else ends up hungry.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2018
  • In the world of a male stag beetle, a good spot on a rotting log is a way to attract females, who like rotting wood to lay their eggs in.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2016
  • The splashed water transforms him into an unspeaking stag who is then attacked, killed and eaten by his own dogs.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Alina uses her powers to save Mal from being murdered, but in doing so, the stag is killed.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The male stag, which the couple had owned for two years, shifted his attention and aggression toward her.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2019
  • But others familiar with the stag species are less surprised to hear of Wednesday's attack.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2019
  • The close parallel between the fawn’s becoming a stag and a child’s becoming an adult gives the book its moral overtone.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
  • That means no more conspicuous consumption or the breaking of high-end hotels’ mounted stag heads.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Barbary sheep, mouflon sheep, blackbuck, red stag, sika and axis deer and mountain goats are among the exotic game that roam the ranch.
    — Melissa Manno, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2023

stag

2 of 2 adjective
  • The treehouse is made from chestnut, with hazel, stag horn oak and larch nest cladding.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 23 May 2019
  • One of game theory’s classic dilemmas is called the stag hunt.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Knocked out, Alina again dreams of the stag and later visits the library to research it.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Up to this time, Holmes had been doing mostly photo layouts, stag films and 8-mm bookstore loops.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Throughout Asia, various species are beloved and kept as pets, such as rhinoceros and stag beetles.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 3 Aug. 2020
  • During the trial, the court heard that the incident took place after Hayne arrived, drunk, at the victim's home following a stag party.
    — Sara Spary, CNN, 7 May 2021
  • Mal, an expert tracker, is able to track the stag north into the snowy mountains that separate East Ravka from Fjerda.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Alina subsequently uses that blade to slash Kirigan, removing the stag bone that was embedded in his hand.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • That is the power of digital transformation in a stag inflationary period.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • After a wild stag party in Las Vegas, three hazy groomsmen must find their missing friend and get him back to Los Angeles in time for his wedding.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The original emblem was a single red shield with a stag head, meant to reflect Dunbar's Scottish family crest, GM said.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2022
  • Iphigenia was sent to her death to make amends for the slaying of a stag dear to the heart of Artemis, who, in a proverbial huff, halted the winds and stalled the onset of the Trojan War.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2021
  • This is the only road to travel to truly experience the Stags Leap District for one thing, named for the jagged rock formations once familiar to stag hunters.
    — SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2019
  • But there were plenty — perhaps a minority, perhaps not — who invoked that stag-party spirit of England, the team, who assumed that the occasion meant anything goes.
    — New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • Nothing much to do, Christmas shopping, wrapping, mailing all out of the way, all the pictures and stuff turned in for the Sunday paper; tomorrow may day off and tonight a stag party at the Press Club.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Its cameras catch the nighttime moves of black rhinos gathering at a Kenyan waterhole, Chilean stag beetles locking jaws in a battle for a mate, and the first-ever footage of a 2-month old orca taking part in the hunt of gray-whale calf.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2022

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