How To Use Draggle In A Sentence

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
She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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.
The poor garden is looking bedraggled: dry and dishevelled.

When we moved to a bedraggled wood 10 years ago, we were greeted the following spring by the exuberant golden blossoms of kerria.
The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal's club had bruised him.
The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
His dark-gold hair, damp and draggled, hung into his eyes, which were dilated and sunk into violet pools; his blank beautiful face was grey and sweating, his entire frame racked with shivering.
I barely recognized the bedraggled figure who staggered in from the storm.
To see how this draggletailed war will end, let us consult the Soviet playbook, which has become ours. Geoffrey Wawro: Afghanistan: The End Is Near, and We've Been There Before
How long, then, can Stern affect the pose of a bedraggled victim?
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. Latest Articles
The sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled ci-devant dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books — books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport. Local Color
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.
Her pink dress was bedraggled, her hair sopping wet.
Some few who had no music in their souls, or no money in their pockets, dawdled about; and the old spectacle of the visitor – wife and the depressed unseasoned prisoner still lingered in corners, as broken cobwebs and such unsightly discomforts draggle in corners of other places. Little Dorrit
Feeling a bit bedraggled by the sultry heat, she began to tidy her appearance. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He wore his deerstalker, and a dirty, dun mackintosh, and a bedraggled tie with stripes.
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
The queues were epic, no one smiled and the place felt bedraggled and neglected. Times, Sunday Times
He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.
With its drystone hedges, bedraggled cottages, enigmatic stone menhirs, and rainswept green fields, Jejudo has something of a Celtic feel.
I wondered in alarm, seeing all the available dry spaces being crowded out by the bedraggled refugees.
Ireland's tiger economy looked more than a little bedraggled. Times, Sunday Times
The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics.
His jaws were apart, and through them the tongue protruded, draggled and limp. The Clinging Death
Wales looked bedraggled and indisciplined. Times, Sunday Times
Even now I can smell the muskiness at the heart of the clustered grapes, the same darkness that inhabits the thicket in the park, hatches moth wings, hides muddles of draggled feathers as they disintegrate.
Captured princes in torn and draggled finery were put to digging latrine drains and clearing up after the cavalry. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
The former dictator was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
Her red hair looked messy, very bedraggled and her clothing…
It included the insults jade, quean, baggage, harlot, drab, filth, flirt, gill, trull, dirtyheels, draggletail, flap, naughty-pack, slut, squirt and strumpet.
The gates of the park were opening and the bedraggled company of nightwalkers were being at last admitted into that paradise of lawns.
The bedraggled figure she encountered was not what she expected. The Sun
Instead of cultivating your graces you bedraggle them with labor! For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store
He was bedraggled and filthy, and seemed half-dazed. THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
'What's to do now,' thinks I, 'that the dogs are here again so soon?' an 'without more ado, I lifted the latch, when, sure enough, it was them, dirty draggled beasts, they might ha' bin possed through a slutch-pit. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
There on the doorstop, drenched and dripping in the darkness, stood a miserably bedraggled Jewish wayfarer.
In 37 years it has never looked so inelegant and bedraggled.
Her long hair was in a bedraggled mess and her normally fair skin was flushed red.
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
The hair was off-white and untidy, calling to mind the fleece of a bedraggled sheep. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The Angel of Light generally appeared in form� pauperis, though there was always about him a tinge of bright azure which was hardly compatible with the draggle-tailed hue of everyday poverty. Ayala's Angel
His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with grey, which would have been stiff and bushy had it not been limp and draggled and dripping with water. Chapter 2
The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
Young mother wears hot shorts and thin high-heel shoes; young maidens wear mini skirts or draggle-tails; young fashionable men wears sleeveless T-shirt printed the head portrait of Putin.
It included the insults jade, quean, baggage, harlot, drab, filth, flirt, gill, trull, dirtyheels, draggletail, flap, naughty-pack, slut, squirt and strumpet.
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.
The broad firm cheeks droop into a pouched flush as they sink downward into his draggled lace collar.
She looked a bit bedraggled as she sat in the dining room, mechanically eating butter cookies from a blue glass plate.
Her face loomed over his - blotchy with tears, eyes swollen, hair bedraggled.
He cut a short pole at the water's edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman. All Gold Cañon
The young woman readjusted her somewhat draggled plumes with a feeble, faded coquetry; Mother Shipton eyed the possessor of "Five Spot" with malevolence, and Uncle Billy included the whole party in one sweeping anathema. Short Stories for English Courses
In past years these marches have been defiant but bedraggled affairs; this one promises to be glitzier. Times, Sunday Times
Add to this a dirty, draggle-tailed chintz; long, matted hair, wandering into her eyes, and over her lean shoulders, which were once so snowy, and you have the picture of drunkenness and Mrs. Simon Gambouge. The Paris Sketch Book
Feeling a bit bedraggled by the sultry heat, she began to tidy her appearance. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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.
She looked a bit bedraggled as she sat in the dining room, mechanically eating butter cookies from a blue glass plate.
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.
One head wearing a blue-glass burgonet with draggled golden plumes was impaled on the pike of its own standard. The Golden Torc
A very miserable-looking man in draggled duck, after nearly swamping the boat in heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out. The "King Of The Greeks"
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?
His hair was chaotically bedraggled, obviously soaked as well as sporadically covered with soapy foam.
Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books -- books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport. Local Colour
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.
People go by, so drenched and draggle-tailed that I have often wondered how they found the heart to undress. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
Because of the draggle of the administer conceptions , the lacuna of legislation and the defects of the remedy mechanism, the clash between the administration and educated rights is increasing.
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
The preacher, instead of vexing the ears of drowsy farmers on their day of rest at the end of the week — for Sunday is the fit conclusion of an ill-spent week, and not the fresh and brave beginning of a new one — with this one other draggle-tail of a sermon, should shout with thundering voice, Walden
The tents looked very bedraggled after the storm.
Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books — books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport. Local Color
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
A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny-sack about his slim hips proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ship's galley in which I found myself.
He was sporting a bedraggled white beard and was wearing ragged tracksuit bottoms with a large hole in them. Times, Sunday Times
She draggles her shawl.
For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless.
When he'd parked his car, the ubiquitous draggle of kids had asked for money to look after it. Fleshmarket Close
A very miserable-looking man in draggled ducks, after nearly swamping the boat in the heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out. The King of the Greeks
Ornithologists suggested it was more likely to be a bedraggled guillemot. Times, Sunday Times
One by one the men made the shore, weary and bedraggled, limbs aching from the strain of fighting the storm.
After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.
Thinking positively, nor will you look like a bedraggled student, unless you are one. Times, Sunday Times
After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.
As neither of the gentlemen was a cavalier, Corny and his friend were totally unsphered by being mounted, the former on a lean, draggle-tailed pony, whose back swayed beneath its ponderous weight as if it would break in the middle, while the latter received practical instruction in the original mode of churning butter on the back of a tall, gaunt, and hungry-looking animal. Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
He was sporting a bedraggled white beard and was wearing ragged tracksuit bottoms with a large hole in them. Times, Sunday Times
the beggar's bedraggled clothes
I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe. Pygmalion
It was a woman, dirty, bedraggled and unkempt, but a woman nonetheless.
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.
By the end, they looked bedraggled. Times, Sunday Times
Exhausted soldiers crawled into camp, frozen and bedraggled.
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
Then drunken father and draggletailed mother had faded from the scene, and the boy had been left to a life of odd jobs and fleeting patrons. The Path of the King
Women with brown faces and draggle-tailed coats and turbans, and wondering eyes, and no stays, and blue beads and gold coins hanging round their necks, came to gaze, as they passed, upon the fair neat Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
When soaking, bedraggled hikers clomped into Tuku at about 6am, an old woman manning a hot noodle stand, was appalled.
So after a week of that, we could look pretty darn emaciated and bedraggled.
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.
It was a woman, dirty, bedraggled and unkempt, but a woman nonetheless.
The heel of her shoe had kicked out the hem and the skirt was bedraggled.
Ireland's tiger economy looked more than a little bedraggled. Times, Sunday Times
It turns out snails love chilli and aubergine plants, too: all of them were looking bedraggled and chewed. Times, Sunday Times
And then there is the feeling that that kind of semi-poverty, which has in itself something of the pleasantness of independence, when it is borne by a man alone, entails the miseries of a draggle-tailed and querulous existence when it is imposed on a woman who has in her own home enjoyed the comforts of affluence. He Knew He Was Right
The white taffeta bow which held the front curls back from her face hung draggled and limp; dust smeared her dress. THE THORN BIRDS
Torrential rain put a damper on the event, sending bedraggled guests squelching across lawns to seek shelter.
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.
Milly was sitting on the bed, her hair bedraggled and looked up in surprise when I ran in.
They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs. Chapter 3
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.
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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Jamie grunted, combing down his long, bedraggled, messy hair with his hand.
His hair was chaotically bedraggled, obviously soaked as well as sporadically covered with soapy foam.
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
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.
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
That, in addition to the bedraggled, disheveled and altogether weary face, created for Will a none-too-familiar picture.
scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts
The door came flying open showing a depressed creature, bedraggled, with hair tangled and sticking out in odd directions.
The heel of her shoe had kicked out the hem and the skirt was bedraggled.
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.
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
Here in town, she probably preferred to tread the extent of the two drawing-rooms, and measure out the miles by spaces of forty feet, rather than bedraggle her skirts over the sloppy pavements. The Blithedale Romance
Those of tree litter at the foot of the issue of disturbing noise in the leaves rustle draggle voice, as if to groan.
With heavy hearts they draggled at the heels of his troop, as they marched down to the river-side to embark.
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
They looked like chrysanthemums, bedraggled, rootbound, and probably frozen now. In the Still of the Night
Her bedraggled black hair falls in soggy straggles around her face and shoulders.
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
So, also, on being asked by a poor writer what was the most profitable mode of exercising the pen, “My dear fellow,” replied he, good-humoredly, “pay no regard to the draggle-tailed muses; for my part I have found productions in prose much more sought after and better paid for.” The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
The ranks of his men closed in orderly march and followed him, and the bruised and draggled survivors of Gwion's unblessed army took up their dead and straggled after, leaving the trampled and bloodied beach clear of all but the drovers and their cattle, and Cadwaladr alone, aloof from all men, stalking in a black, forbidding cloud of disgust and humiliation after his brother. His Disposition
Indeed it is beneath them to meddle with such dirty draggle-tails; and whatever happens to them, it is good enough for them. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
I turned up my coat collar to meet my hat brim and hunched defensively, like a bedraggled bird.
I picked up a lone, bedraggled hitch-hiker, who had come all the way from Slovenia to visit the distilleries.
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.
The broad firm cheeks droop into a pouched flush as they sink downward into his draggled lace collar.
Small plants lay draggled on the floor, in a litter of branches and fallen leaves.
a street of bedraggled tenements
I barely recognized the bedraggled figure who staggered in from the storm.
Her fur was staring wet, draggled into points, and her tail was thick with black mud.
He was an alarmingly tall and thin individual, whose long, bedraggled dark hair fell nearly to his waist.
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.
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
a wheen sketching souls, that ye may see perched like craws on every craig in the country, e'en working at your ain trade, Maister Francie; forby men that had been in foreign parts, or said they had been there, whilk is a 'ane, ye ken; and maybe twa or three draggletailed misses, that wear my Leddy Penelope's follies when she has dune wi' them, as her queans of maids wear her second-hand claithes. St. Ronan's Well
Sweat poured down his body under the leather shirt, soaked the draggled breechclout between his legs. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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.
She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
It can't have come very far, although it is looking a bit bedraggled and its tail is very droopy.
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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