scraggy

How To Use scraggy In A Sentence

• Unknown to her, a tall, scraggy man stood in the doorway, watching her.
• With a rapid, jingling drive to the harbour in a two - wheeled machine (which Captain Mitchell called a curricle) behind a fleet and scraggy mule beaten all the time by an obviously Neapolitan driver, the cycle would be nearly closed before the lighted-up offices of the O.S. N. Company, remaining open so late because of the steamer. Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard
• He's put on twenty or thirty pounds, and is no longer the pitiful scraggy rafter trembling with fear. OUTCAST
• He said he had noticed that they all started with the same scraggy street kid hair cuts, their shoulders drooped, they were shy and they were scared.
• The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would scratch our eyes out. Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF?
• She was tall for her fourteen years, and very slender – "scraggy," Jim was wont to say, with the cheerful frankness of brothers. Mates at Billabong
• One day in the mountains I met a young shepherd and we chatted for over half an hour while his scraggy sheep tinkled and grazed.
• He drew up the scraggy skin of the neck, again removing a slice like another section of orange, so he could restitch and pull tightly back towards the lobes of the ears. Deadly Intent
• Last year a thin, scraggy squirrel appeared in my garden from nowhere, looking hungry.
• He then pointed to a scraggy camelthorn tree about one hundred yards away and said, You will live under that tree. The Bushman Way of Tracking God