How To Use Straggly In A Sentence
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His straggly, thinning hair flaps in the wind, as does his worn, long white coat.
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He started appearing in public wearing a uniform: straggly beard, denims and woolly hat.
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Her long fair hair was knotted and straggly.
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He may be a little world-weary, but behind the half-beard and the straggly locks there's the faintest trace of a smile.
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I admit he has dreadful teeth, is skinny as hell and well fulfills the term ‘geek’ with his straggly hair.
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Tinker, a career criminal, has spent much of his life in prison; he's pot-bellied, balding with straggly brown hair, and has a thick handlebar moustache.
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Fog darkened the wood and hung over the pond, turning the straggly trees near the shore into ghostly figures.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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His thinning white hair was straggly on his skull, his worn Dallas Cowboys jacket in need of replacing, his jeans hanging loose on his body, his feet clad in old sneakers.
I’ll Walk Alone
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I sit in the only empty chair on the front row next to a very pale man with long straggly gray hair who has a persistent dry cough and wears sandals with thin black socks.
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The straggly, scrawny kid who grabs a guitar in hopes of finally getting some kind of attention from the girls other than sneers and spitballs is no more.
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These straggly stems should be pruned off the bush.
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More vigorous shrubs, such as viburnum and hamamelis, need long, straggly stems to be cut out completely.
Times, Sunday Times
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She would arrive late looking crumpled and haggard after a late night, with straggly hair and bleary eyes.
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But then I let my hair grow, and it got straggly, and I tried to explain my hair-based needs thusly.
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He just hates what he calls straggly straight hair.
CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2007
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He has a long, straggly grey beard.
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He saw, the sheet had his own letter heading, there was a straggly signature that looked a bit like his.
COUP D'ETAT
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There were no hens pecking about, no friendly lop-sided roofs or straggly flowers popping their heads above the earth.
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straggly ivy
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My dark brown hair was dirty and straggly, the longest strands falling just past my shoulders.
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It shows a woman with a tall, intelligent face, straggly wiry hair and very long fingers held up and covering one eye.
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straggly hair
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There should be straggly broad bean plants, and lines of mangy lettuces.
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She brushed the tangles out of her straggly red hair.
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It was a shabby, straggly, unkempt little regiment, their faces chapped, their noses running in the cold.
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It grows to over 1.5m but should, like all grevilleas, be pruned back to prevent it from becoming straggly.
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As I paused to peer down at the boat, I saw two huge goldfish surface from the slow green water then dive creating ripples that lapped the banks where straggly willows stooped heavy with catkins.
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As Samantha, she eschews pointed hats, straggly hair, cockeyes and warts in favor of the ‘witch twitch’, sometimes described as a nose wiggle.
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Except for a couple of straggly pines with twisted limbs, the rock was bare.
FOOLS GOLD
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The forsythia was still there, vast now and straggly, but its outer branches laden with golden bloom.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Along the way we encountered straggly herds of llamas and occasional wild dogs.
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His hair is a chestnut pompadour and he has a straggly moustache.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before my wondering eyes the straggly but still stalwart pansies were ripped from their root systems and with lightning moves caladium bulbs took their place.
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Try on a cool beret, cowboy hat or newsboy to hide your straggly fringe.
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If I try to cast my mind back to the time before I knew Arabic, I suppose I thought 'fakir' meant 'yogi, swami, thin person with straggly beard who lies in bed of nails'; but I'm pretty sure I always saw the connexion with 'faker' as just an accident.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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It was a shabby, straggly, unkempt little regiment, their faces chapped, their noses running in the cold.
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Thus it was always an eight - hour drive behind mountain horses from the alfalfa meadows (where I kept many Jersey cows) to the straggly village beside the big dry creek, where I caught the little narrow-gauge train.
Chapter 8
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One December day we found an old straggly cat at our door.
The Stray Cat « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
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As he stood up slowly from his throne, his straggly dark hair whipped back from his forehead in the now bitter wind, his cloak taking on the image of the wings of a bat as it flapped and billowed out behind him.
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It's a wonderfully evocative and private moment, the boy looking kind of straggly and no longer hip without the rain coat and leather jacket to bulk him up, and the girl suggesting her sensuality and sexiness with just the slender curve of her back to the camera.
Elevator to the Gallows
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Steve Jones, then a student at University College London, recounts how he was approached by a stooped middle-aged American with a straggly beard and wild hair who told me, with great intensity, that he had a hotline to Jesus.
SuperCooperators
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I hadn't noticed it before, but a light fog misted over the far off maples and oaks and straggly birches and weeping willows in dusk, dreary cheer.
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If they have been regularly pruned there should be lots of new shoots at the base and you can cut back to these - it feels as though you are destroying the plant but left unpruned they soon become straggly and unsightly.
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Donnie raised his clean hand and dabbed the sweat from Steven's forehead, under his straggly hair.
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All my carefully sifted loose-stone paths are now concealed under an untidy blanket of straggly feverfew and so much red clover you could call it a crop.
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He pointed to the straggly, exhaust-choked line of spiny hedging that grew against the railing.
The Priest
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I discovered we have the dreaded Fallopia japonica aka Japanese knotweed, aargh, so that was A Bad Thing; but also found a small and runty Kerria japonica aka batchelors’ buttons or Abraham’s buttonhole, a funny straggly flowering shrub that I happen to be very fond of and intend to nurture, and some self-sown calendulas, which were A Good Thing.
Reflective on Tuesday
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She was so close to the man that her chin brushed the straggly beard he was trying to cultivate.
THE LAST PLACE
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With her flaky skin, bad teeth and straggly hair, she's almost unrecognisable.
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The first two are adorably cute, saucer-eyed pups, the third a rather straggly and unprepossessing mongrel.
The Hard Sell: Thinkbox.tv
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At the Riding-house in Nicolson Street was a kind of straggly group, with red-coats interspersed.
Thomas Carlyle
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The women are slags, either scrawny with straggly blonde hair, or grotesquely fat and bulging out of their tracksuit bottoms.
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Straggly dusk-colored casuarinas, lush pisonias, and coconut palms take hold as the island grows large enough to nourish them.
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Thus, it was always an eight-hour drive behind mountain horses from the alfalfa meadows (where I kept many Jersey cows) to the straggly village beside the big dry creek, where I caught the lime narrow - gauge train.
Chapter 8
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He dripped water from off the hem of his pants, the bottom of his longish trench coat and the long hair that lay straggly on his back.
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Her clothes were heavy with dirt and her hair straggly and greasy.
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Tinker, a career criminal, has spent much of his life in prison; he's pot-bellied, balding with straggly brown hair, and has a thick handlebar moustache.