How to Use stag in a Sentence

stag

1 of 2 noun

• This isn't the first time Alina has dreamt of the stag.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• While sitting on top of the stags, the monkeys groomed their backs and head.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2017
• That’s why Biden and McCarthy both claim to be stag hunters.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
• View this post on Instagram A crown for each of the three stags.
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2019
• My son, Cheetah Boy, went to only one prom, stag, and at the last minute.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
• The two stags were evenly matched, with no clear cut winner.
  — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• Without the other knowing, each must choose to hunt a stag or a hare.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2011
• These stags are in peak-rut form, all vying for the attention of the hinds in estrus.
  — 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
• Think of a lion's mane, a peacock's feathers or a stag's antlers.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
• Even in Bambi, the main character's father, a brown stag, is known as the Great Prince of the Forest.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2022
• Adams said that the stag, or male deer, has very identifiable antlers.
  — Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
• But proximity to stags, bulls, and bucks during the rut should get your heart rate up.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 24 Aug. 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
• This extends to pop culture: in Snow White and the Huntsman, the white stag is a mystical, revered creature.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2022
• According to legend, David I of Scotland had a vision of a stag with a cross between its antlers on the site in 1128.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2022
• 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
• It was made of water, but not helpfully, a stag walked inside.
  — Katie Peterson, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• Alina awakens from a dream about a giant stag with enormous antlers.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• The stag’s head is valued at $3.5 million, the district attorney said.
  — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
• At nearly 5-feet tall, this majestic stag can be lit in a choice of three different shades.
  — WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• In the forest surrounding Lallybroch, a heavily bearded Jamie takes down a stag with a bow and arrow and brings it to the house.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Sep. 2017
• The city acquired the Portland Oregon sign in 2010 and secured the rights from the state to use the sign's stag image on products other than beer the following year.
  — Jessica Floum, OregonLive.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• 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
• For some stags, the battle over breeding becomes deadly.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 24 Aug. 2023
• In 1957, the sugar came down, and the sign was rebranded for White Stag, a sportswear company, which used a white stag as its mascot.
  — oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2019
• 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 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
• 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
• 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

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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
• Knocked out, Alina again dreams of the stag and later visits the library to research it.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• One of game theory’s classic dilemmas is called the stag hunt.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 17 Apr. 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
• Prince Philip enjoys himself with friends at his stag party.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 9 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Throughout Asia, various species are beloved and kept as pets, such as rhinoceros and stag beetles.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 3 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Will's head sprouts stag antlers and a raven sits on Hannibal's shoulder in a reference to the show's often surrealist imagery.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That is the power of digital transformation in a stag inflationary period.
  — Michael Gale, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• The treehouse is made from chestnut, with hazel, stag horn oak and larch nest cladding.
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 23 May 2019
• Knocked out, Alina again dreams of the stag and later visits the library to research it.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• One of game theory’s classic dilemmas is called the stag hunt.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 17 Apr. 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
• Prince Philip enjoys himself with friends at his stag party.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 9 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Throughout Asia, various species are beloved and kept as pets, such as rhinoceros and stag beetles.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 3 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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

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