How To Use Straggling In A Sentence
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Her sari was torn, her hair straggling, her fingernails ruined.
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops, stone circles, sacred trees and springs.
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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
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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
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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
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It is a short, unattractive tree, with epigeous branches spreading out in a straggling manner.
The Philippine Islands
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With a soapy hand, Inga swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the sink.
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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
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-- "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
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of & straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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As I write there comes vividly to mind a chilly, mid-August morning in the Arizona plateau country, where two Navajo shepherdesses left their straggling flock to share in the warmth of our camp fire and to pass the time of day.
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At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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We first rode through a long, straggling village, called Carreiras, and afterwards passed a small fazenda, where there were evidences of a refined mind; it was radiant with flowers, and trellised with creepers.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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One intense young American with Maori tattoos on his legs and a straggling beard tells his fascinated fellows of his experiments with colonic irrigation.
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With his straggling, white hair, the moustache stained yellow by the smoke from his pipe of home-grown, herbal tobacco and his generally battered work-clothes, he looked the embodiment of the artisan.
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The colours are deftly placed, the flaunting red of the carnation answering the scarlet of the nasturtiums straggling on the plinth below.
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No. There is a volume of smoke, as if the chimney were in flame -- a tumultuous cloud pours aloft, straggling and broken, through the broad slate stones that defend the mouth of the vomitory from every blast.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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You can also use these scissors to trim the straggling hairs at the tops of your thighs.
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A straggling line of women and children on the move with their meager possessions atop their heads.
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They came straggling up the cliff road.
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He quickly went to shaving, trimming up his sideburns and removing straggling hairs on his chin.
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For it was masked in the gloom of the overhanging trees; or hidden behind dropping veils of ivy; or lit up by straggling patches of broom and cytisus that thrust themselves through the gaps in the Roman brickwork and shone golden in the dark.
Eleanor
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Branches straggling out quite far
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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They were dressed as most bikers do, in leather, blue jeans, helmets, sun glasses, long, greasy hair straggling over the edge of their collars, scruffy moustaches and beards covering their faces.
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His vignettes depict scenes of trapped journalists, straggling soldiers and gruesome battles.
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Raven merely hopped down from Callan's shoulder and changed back into his human shape, hauling a hood over his straggling hair, which was soaked through.
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we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt
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And the couple of cars that are straggling through is heading westbound, which is the way the plane come in. so if you look up far away from where the cars are slowly going -- fastly going, you'll see the runway there.
CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2005
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Marissa also did her hair in a French twist, then curled the straggling pieces so they framed her face.
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There was a line of white straggling across to the skerries, almost at right angles to the island.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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The Fal estuary is long and wide, and Falmouth grew along its western side in a straggling way, curving round into docks at the southern end where a headland projects to narrow the mouth.
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His small face, adorned with straggling blond whiskers and as wrinkled and rough as a winter apple, was hidden by a large oil-cloth hat lined with felt; a sort of gray coutil coat was drawn up to his hips and bagged around his stomach, while his trousers stopped at the knees and disclosed his bare legs reddened by the rubbing of the stirrup-straps, and his blue hose, which hung over his shoes.
Over Strand and Field
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The guardsman hit hard and lay still, and shouts of alarm and terror mixed with fresh cries of pain as arrows pelted his straggling rearguard.
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They formed a long procession straggling on endlessly through the valley towards the distant roofs and church steeples of the Suburbs ahead.
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Only three sadhus, with straggling long hair and fierce beards, were immediately identifiable; the rest, we learned later, consisted of servants and assorted bhakts who had attached themselves to the temple.
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Then we raked up every straggling blade, till the whole field was a clean floor for the tedding and the carrying of the hay next morning.
The Mowing of a Field
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unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes
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This straggling shrub grows about a metre high and is covered in golden globular flowers.
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Here and there, behind the trees, I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his high-priest’s hat of white.
A Hero of Our Time
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Here and there, behind the trees, I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his high-priest's hat of white.
A Hero of Our Time
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At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage – stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad – stools and tight – sticking snails.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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Following the detectives the other members of the party came in straggling order, and it was well after 10 o’clock when the real business of the day was commenced in the top paddock at Kilmany Park, about a mile and a half further on than what is known as the racecourse paddock.
Archive 2009-03-01
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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Look to the vines; if there is an abundance of long straggling growths, cut some of them out, leaving those you will want for cutting back in the autumn.
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The difficulty of keeping soldiers from straying out of quarters by night, would have sufficiently accounted for the appearance of a straggling foot-soldier; but it was more difficult to account for a mounted horseman, in full armour; and such was the apparition which a peculiarly bright glimpse of moonlight now showed at the bottom of the causewayed hill.
Castle Dangerous
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Imagine having a dozen TV cameras trained upon you over eight hours with you sporting straggling hair, two-day stubble and dirty fingernails.
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On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky.
The Silverado Squatters
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We could see a group straggling behind, and then things got nasty; this was when several people were arrested and police dogs were used.
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With a soapy hand, Inger swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the dishpan.
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So when the door swings open, I wonder who this man is with the long, straggling grey hair and the face that looks like it has been in a long brawl with life.
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We then passed a few straggling houses; then an old fazenda; then we came to a stream with one plank, which we made our animals cross.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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This masculinity was emphasised by her uncompromising coiffure, her grey hair drawn tightly back and screwed into a straggling bun.
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I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his highpriest's hat of white.
A Hero of Our Time
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The Vine - straggling and green - shaded garden is ideal for cocktail parties, lawn wedding, fashion events.
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We were visiting a small , thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt.
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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I'm fairly sure they were deliberately straggling so they could get the prize for coming last.
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In this manner, under the dim-flickering light of an "oilie cruizie," in a straggling village in Perthshire, did I learn first of Blue Beard and
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
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The loss of the barbican had also this unfortunate effect, that, notwithstanding the superior height of the castle walls, the besieged could not see from them, with the same precision as before, the operations of the enemy; for some straggling underwood approached so near the sallyport of the outwork, that the assailants might introduce into it whatever force they thought proper, not only under cover, but even without the knowledge of the defenders.
Ivanhoe
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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A principal role of military police has been to apprehend deserters and to prevent soldiers straggling or running from the battlefield; troops deployed in the latter role are often termed ‘battle police’.
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So they go out in a loose procession something after the manner of a straggling funeral.
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And with PG Mateen Cleaves straggling, they could use a veteran in the backcourt behind PG Chucky Atkins.
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He looked terrible, any age, rather bald with a straggling beard.
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At 6pm, Masters, rum in pocket, swaggers down the street like a dishevelled Pied Piper with about 60 young devotees straggling along behind him.
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The terrible figure of Draupadi, as she dishevels her long black hair, is the very impersonation of revenge; and a Hindoo audience never fails to shudder at her fearful vow -- that the straggling tresses shall never again be tied up until the day when Bhima shall have fulfilled his vow, and shall then bind them up whilst his fingers are still dripping with the blood of Duhsasana.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
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I slicked my wet hair back, clearing the straggling tresses from my face.
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A drummer with a gold-mounted elk's tooth dangling from his chain ogled her, so she sat very prim of back, gazing out over flying villages that were like white-pine toys cut in the cisalpine Alps and invitingly more clipped and groomed than the straggling Indiana towns of yesterday.
Star-Dust
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We have tamed another bit of garden: a dolorous little drying green hedged on two sides with straggling cotoneasters which formed the view from the dining room.
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
The Waverley
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Far to the south lay the Serna or prairillon of Sánga-Tánga, a rolling patch, "or, on a field vert," backed by the usual dark belt of the same, and fronted by straggling dots that emerged from the wave -- they proved to be a thin line of trees along shore.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
Archive 2008-07-01
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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, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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straggling branches
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The Indians are constantly prowling around trying to steal our horses and kill straggling men.
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a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley
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We came to Forfar, which is our village and about six miles from Coombargana, a little place of one long street straggling on the highway.
The Breaking Wave
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I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
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You can also use these scissors to trim any straggling hairs.
