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straggly example sentences
straggly
1. People must have been living on this site for centuries … she visualised fur clad people with straggly hair wandering around the boggy bits with spears … no, that felt wrong … why would they need spears to collect plants? Baskets, perhaps … did they have baskets then? When exactly would it have been? Her daytime TV watching had given her a hazy smattering of terms – bronze age came before iron age, she knew that … but how much before? And when did they stop being savages and become civilised?
2. On the minus side, the wallflowers are all weedy and straggly … maybe you should tie them up to sticks or something
3. He was as gnarled as the few straggly pines
4. long, straggly dark hair and a smile that could light up the
5. Even if it is some straggly looking loblolly pine sprout, he brings it in and we decorate it with whatever we can make
6. The brave Baquero was killed, vainly attempting to rally his men; and as the leading files of the almost exhausted Americans clambered over the ridge, and prepared for the crash of hand-to-hand conflict, a straggly line of pale blue rose against the sky, as the Spaniards sprang up from their trenches, evacuated their fort, and fled precipitately into the intervening valley before Santiago
7. Thinking Kiskap had returned early, I went out to check, but it was a much shorter man, older than me but younger than Kiskap, meanly dressed and sporting a straggly beard covered with frost, approaching on a dogsled
8. His hair was straggly and dark but it was receding fast
9. It showed Lenin, soft cap clenched in his hands, the gaunt face with a balding head, the straggly black beard and the intense, defiant eyes staring at the masses as he addressed them during the early days of the Revolution
10. A middle aged man, with work clothes and long straggly hair
11. The last time she had seen Steve his long hair was parted in the centre and hung, tangled, over his shoulders, a straggly hippy-style mustache dangling either side of his mouth
12. When she turned back she was staring directly at the man noticing the scar that was hidden by his straggly hair earlier
13. straggly facial hair that sprouted in random places around his chin and neck
14. A very thin young man with straggly hair and boney shoulders went over to the pot
15. Are you new?” Her voice was cracked and thin, straggly white hair hung down to her bony shoulders, but there was still a gleam in her eyes
16. the straggly beard would rather have rather given the game away
17. She had a fat body, with thin straggly limbs protruding from it, like some grotesque parody of a spider
18. Her long straggly gray hair and sharp
19. The long straggly brown hair on its head made it obvious it was a girl, and the right half of a broken-heart necklace around her neck made it obvious who it was – Ava
20. Hair should not be loose or straggly
21. I gathered up my skirts and went down through the soaked grass to where against the fence there is a divine straggly bush of pink China roses
22. Wearing his old street clothes, consisting of some tattered brown pants cinched high by a pair of red suspenders, he was still mostly clean-shaven, with only a day or two’s growth of straggly whiskers clinging to his broad face
23. Thirty seconds after Clint came out, a second man, sporting a straggly mane of hair, stalked from the building
24. In the few minutes it had taken for the women to get inside the trailer, he’d taken time to comb his straggly head of snow-white hair
25. Like the others, he was shabbily dressed and smoothed the few long straggly hairs that were still on his bald head--maybe trying to look more presentable
26. A slight, thin, foreign-looking girl wearing a red overcoat appeared in the straggly line of passengers walking to the terminal
27. said, wiping his straggly beard with his sleeve
28. Jonah might once have been a merchant, Gwenda thought grimly, and he might even come from Abingdon, but his boots were worn, his clothes were filthy, and his matted hair and straggly beard showed that he had not visited a city barber for some years
29. It was still dark and hard to see and there were many uneven rocks and straggly pines
30. Pine Bloom looked straggly and overgrown with weeds, seedling pines were beginning to show in the fields and the house was sagging and untidy
31. He had bad skin, a straggly soul patch, and running shoes that he’d worn to death, but he had a nice smile and held the door for me
32. straggly beard, was saying
33. They resemble straggly, unshowy garden roses with thorned stems and simple white or pink flowers
34. 8 Wild Grapes (Vitis) are straggly, high-climbing, with large, heart-shaped coarsely toothed leaves, greenish flowers and bunches of amber to purplish grapes
35. They are straggly trees, with aerial roots and leathery evergreen leaves rounded at the base
36. “He should pay folks off properly,” a thin workingman, with frowning brows and a straggly beard, was saying
37. Up on the wharf we went and round the corner into a straggly kind of road with old-fashioned houses on both sides of it
