How To Use Bedraggled In A Sentence
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Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
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Jamie grunted, combing down his long, bedraggled, messy hair with his hand.
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After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.
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Rational Review
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Any day now the 11,000th visitor will wander into a small shopping arcade off the bedraggled main street of Sittingbourne in Kent, between the cash-for-gold jeweller's and the discount shop selling bales of cheap loo rolls, set down their shopping bags, and watch the history of Kent being rewritten.
How Sittingbourne discovered an archaeological treasure trove
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On the other hand, this will not be a great night for couture designers; Jack is a driven character, but also short, tubby and bedraggled, heedless of fashion's demands.
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Milly was sitting on the bed, her hair bedraggled and looked up in surprise when I ran in.
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Thus they went, a sopping sodden mess, each following the other out of the Square past the tall pines of the Mission and the Officers bedraggled salute.
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Torrential rain put a damper on the event, sending bedraggled guests squelching across lawns to seek shelter.
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It turns out snails love chilli and aubergine plants, too: all of them were looking bedraggled and chewed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ireland's tiger economy looked more than a little bedraggled.
Times, Sunday Times
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The heel of her shoe had kicked out the hem and the skirt was bedraggled.
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It was a woman, dirty, bedraggled and unkempt, but a woman nonetheless.
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He had dragged himself from the bed in a tangle of blankets, his hair tousled and bedraggled like a farmer's hay stack that had been left out in the rain.
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So after a week of that, we could look pretty darn emaciated and bedraggled.
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When soaking, bedraggled hikers clomped into Tuku at about 6am, an old woman manning a hot noodle stand, was appalled.
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Bisecting Budapest and Belgrade Streets, a wide boulevard lined by bedraggled trees commemorates Béla Kun, the Hungarian revolutionary who in 1919 founded the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic and was later executed by Stalin for his pains.
The Return
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Exhausted soldiers crawled into camp, frozen and bedraggled.
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By the end, they looked bedraggled.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can see my reflection in the mirror, but I do not want to see the bedraggled, red-streaked hair and the angry, sad expression.
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It was a woman, dirty, bedraggled and unkempt, but a woman nonetheless.
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the beggar's bedraggled clothes
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He was sporting a bedraggled white beard and was wearing ragged tracksuit bottoms with a large hole in them.
Times, Sunday Times
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After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.
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Thinking positively, nor will you look like a bedraggled student, unless you are one.
Times, Sunday Times
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I won't bore you with details of our portage of the canoe back to the hire centre, excuses to the owners for our bedraggled state, or the hours spent warming up in the shower afterwards, but I will bore you with a little observation.
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Oh, to miss the sight of her because I was wet through and bedraggled, and had not so much as five sous to give to a shoeblack for removing the least little spot of mud from my boot!
The Magic Skin
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It can't have come very far, although it is looking a bit bedraggled and its tail is very droopy.
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She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
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The disciplinarian drill sergeant Javier Clemente was appointed as their new manager last Monday, charged with hauling a bedraggled set of troops on a yomp away from relegation.
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The Irish News was quick to replace the loss of Susan McKay with the equally impressive columnist, Fionnuala O'Connor, author of 'first article, she examines the possible repercussions of the British Conservative Party's link-up with the' bedraggled 'link of Unionism, Reg Empey's Ulster Unionist Party, under the bizarre UCUNF label.
Slugger O'Toole
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Exhausted, the roughs finally shaken off, at 1 a.m. the sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
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He was an alarmingly tall and thin individual, whose long, bedraggled dark hair fell nearly to his waist.
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I barely recognized the bedraggled figure who staggered in from the storm.
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a street of bedraggled tenements
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We were both wearing our best clothes at the time so my mother was not pleased to note our bedraggled appearance on our return home.
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I picked up a lone, bedraggled hitch-hiker, who had come all the way from Slovenia to visit the distilleries.
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I turned up my coat collar to meet my hat brim and hunched defensively, like a bedraggled bird.
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His hair was chaotically bedraggled, obviously soaked as well as sporadically covered with soapy foam.
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Her bedraggled black hair falls in soggy straggles around her face and shoulders.
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They looked like chrysanthemums, bedraggled, rootbound, and probably frozen now.
In the Still of the Night
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Any day now the 11,000th visitor will wander into a small shopping arcade off the bedraggled main street of Sittingbourne in Kent, between the cash-for-gold jeweller's and the discount shop selling bales of cheap loo rolls, set down their shopping bags, and watch the history of Kent being rewritten.
How Sittingbourne discovered an archaeological treasure trove
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I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate-raids in Kiaochow, Manchuria, South Africa & the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies.
Mark Twain
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The cottage door had been newly painted but, in the grey of the afternoon, the bedraggled vines that clung to the brickwork gave the place an air of neglect.
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The heel of her shoe had kicked out the hem and the skirt was bedraggled.
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The door came flying open showing a depressed creature, bedraggled, with hair tangled and sticking out in odd directions.
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That, in addition to the bedraggled, disheveled and altogether weary face, created for Will a none-too-familiar picture.
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As soon as they entered the town, Pinocchio noticed that all the streets were filled with hairless dogs, yawning from hunger; with sheared sheep, trembling with cold; with combless chickens, begging for a grain of wheat; with large butterflies, unable to use their wings because they had sold all their lovely colors; with tailless peacocks, ashamed to show themselves; and with bedraggled pheasants, scuttling away hurriedly, grieving for their bright feathers of gold and silver, lost to them forever.
Adventures of Pinocchio
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His hair was bedraggled; some of it fell in the dark waves as intended, but the rest of it was divided between twisting away in haphazard directions and matting itself to his head.
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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He wore his deerstalker, and a dirty, dun mackintosh, and a bedraggled tie with stripes.
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The bedraggled figure she encountered was not what she expected.
The Sun
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The gates of the park were opening and the bedraggled company of nightwalkers were being at last admitted into that paradise of lawns.
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Her red hair looked messy, very bedraggled and her clothing…
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The former dictator was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
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Wales looked bedraggled and indisciplined.
Times, Sunday Times
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All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics.
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The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
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Ireland's tiger economy looked more than a little bedraggled.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wondered in alarm, seeing all the available dry spaces being crowded out by the bedraggled refugees.
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With its drystone hedges, bedraggled cottages, enigmatic stone menhirs, and rainswept green fields, Jejudo has something of a Celtic feel.
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The queues were epic, no one smiled and the place felt bedraggled and neglected.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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He was bedraggled and filthy, and seemed half-dazed.
THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
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Feeling a bit bedraggled by the sultry heat, she began to tidy her appearance.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Her pink dress was bedraggled, her hair sopping wet.
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After about half an hour of inability to go back to sleep, I ran a hairbrush through my bedraggled hair and stumbled down four flights of stairs to get to the dining hall.
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The sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled ci-devant dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
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I know there are some seniors who are kind of bedraggled and can't picture being vigorous enough to be Prez at 72, but there are an awful lot of seniors who resent the age jokes.
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How long, then, can Stern affect the pose of a bedraggled victim?
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I barely recognized the bedraggled figure who staggered in from the storm.
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The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
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When we moved to a bedraggled wood 10 years ago, we were greeted the following spring by the exuberant golden blossoms of kerria.
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The poor garden is looking bedraggled: dry and dishevelled.
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The visiting pack were in awesome form, consistently making ground at the edges of the rucks and gradually wearing down the home eight, who by the end resembled a bunch of bedraggled and punch-drunk boxers.
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The hurricane's eye also passed close to Port Arthur, Texas, another petrochemical town where bedraggled refugees spent a wet and noisy night trying to sleep on a hotel lobby carpet - until a gust blew in the windows.
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Ornithologists suggested it was more likely to be a bedraggled guillemot.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless.
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He was sporting a bedraggled white beard and was wearing ragged tracksuit bottoms with a large hole in them.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak.
Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley
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The tents looked very bedraggled after the storm.
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Every time I saw her getting homelier and kind of bedraggled like, I said to myself, well, I've saved Peter from that at any rate.
The Lovely Lady
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McLellan may have been wet, bedraggled and muddied but she could still raise a big smile at the prospect of making that first underground sighting of a wombat, cosy and safe, far down in its den.
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His hair was chaotically bedraggled, obviously soaked as well as sporadically covered with soapy foam.
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This new menu, marked on the back with a piece of bedraggled masking tape with the words "color-blind menu" penciled upon it, looked very similar to the regular menu, save for the fact that some of the items were printed in italic, a distinction that had been made clear to my dining companions by the strategic use of black and red type on the normal-people menu.
Momentoid?
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I have an image of myself, floundering in the rising water as I try to cling to floating stems, my feathers bedraggled and flying out in all directions.
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She looked a bit bedraggled as she sat in the dining room, mechanically eating butter cookies from a blue glass plate.
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One by one the men made the shore, weary and bedraggled, limbs aching from the strain of fighting the storm.
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Feeling a bit bedraggled by the sultry heat, she began to tidy her appearance.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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In past years these marches have been defiant but bedraggled affairs; this one promises to be glitzier.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her face loomed over his - blotchy with tears, eyes swollen, hair bedraggled.
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She looked a bit bedraggled as she sat in the dining room, mechanically eating butter cookies from a blue glass plate.
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Somerset looked as if it'd just got out of the shower and wasn't properly towel-dried yet, with trees and copses and hedgerows on all sides bedraggled and uncombed.
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The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
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The hair was off-white and untidy, calling to mind the fleece of a bedraggled sheep.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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If you look up the word bedraggled in the dictionary, there will be an image of my 4 rain soaked scrawny birds, standing on one foot, so close together they look attached.
Chickens, a Beach Umbrella, and HOT Grits
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Her long hair was in a bedraggled mess and her normally fair skin was flushed red.
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In 37 years it has never looked so inelegant and bedraggled.
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There on the doorstop, drenched and dripping in the darkness, stood a miserably bedraggled Jewish wayfarer.
