straggling

How To Use straggling In A Sentence

• Her sari was torn, her hair straggling, her fingernails ruined.
• I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
• I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops, stone circles, sacred trees and springs.
• We struggled through long lines of heavy-laden country carts, and swarms of clattering _droskies_, all striving to force their way along with that hurry-skurry that adds to confusion and lessens speed; and we came at last to a long pontoon bridge, over which we crossed the Oka, and beyond which rises the hill-range or ravine, on the top and at the foot of which is built the straggling town of Nijni-Novgorod. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
• Only odd remnants of the meet, straggling foot-passengers, terriers straining at a strap held by drunken runners -- some in old Beaufort coats, others in corduroy -- one-horse shays of every description by the sides of the road and sloppy girls with stick and tammies standing in gaps of the fences, straining their eyes across the fields to see the hounds. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
• Nestling at the foot of this mountain amphitheater, and washed by the bay, straggling lengthways and up and down, is Funchal, with its brilliant white houses and green facings glittering in the sun. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
• It is a short, unattractive tree, with epigeous branches spreading out in a straggling manner. The Philippine Islands
• With a soapy hand, Inga swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the sink.
• It was the ignorance of man’s reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the providence of God: for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and straggling way; nor any effect whatsoever but hath its warrant from some universal or superior cause. Religio Medici
• -- "Deep blackish-brown, with a slight rufous reflection in a certain light; fur short, close, soft, and adpressed; tail thick at the base, with a few long very slender straggling hairs along its entire length; ears small and rounded; snout elongated. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon