adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a craggy/jagged cliff (= with a lot of sharp rocks )
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This is an area of spectacular gorges and jagged cliffs.
a jagged peak (= with several sharp points )
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At first all I could see was the hazy black outline of a jagged peak.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
edge
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Flames leapt hundreds of feet high, illuminating the jagged edges of the blocks.
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There are too many jagged edges to the Clinton experience, too many highs and lows.
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At one corner, a large chunk had been knocked out completely, leaving a nasty, jagged edge .
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The shaman broke the bones with his bare hands, and used the jagged edges to scratch at his bark.
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When such trend lines are smoothed, the jagged edges are sawn off.
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Some of the major new features include TrueType, which can create type of varying sizes without any jagged edges .
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For the moment it may have smoothed or at least covered the jagged edges between the two sides.
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This one appear to have broken shortly after impact spinning the car on to its jagged edge .
rock
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The river banks changed from jagged rock with little vegetation to luscious green slopes covered with olive trees.
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It was a special method that allowed fishermen to avoid the jagged rocks that lay beneath the breaking waves.
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She regarded herself as having been battered by uncontrollable forces, washed up in hostile, foreign waters against jagged rocks .
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Multicolored volcanic ash flows, long since hardened to jagged rock , reach into the sea like fantastic taffy mountains.
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In one shot the 27-year-old beauty sits wantonly on a jagged rock , her legs splayed.
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Instead, hard peaks and jagged rocks thrust up from the ground like knives.
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Beneath us, the descents were toothed with jagged rock .
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They have just about sailed between the twin jagged rocks of Maastricht and recession.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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jagged mountain peaks
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Many ships have been torn apart on the jagged rocks that ring the shoreline.
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The window had gone, and the floor was covered with jagged pieces of glass.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Appalled by rusty, jagged equipment, she proposed replacing it in 1987.
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At one corner, a large chunk had been knocked out completely, leaving a nasty, jagged edge.
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Slabs irregularly cut with jagged lines where sections had dropped off.
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The knobby jagged clay cliff became as grand and exotic as the Grand Canyon to them.
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This is an area of spectacular gorges and jagged cliffs, beautiful unspoilt villages, with historic castles and mediaeval houses.
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With their stark, jagged profiles, the rocky peaks were an obvious treasure.