straggling

How To Use straggling In A Sentence

• Her sari was torn, her hair straggling, her fingernails ruined.
• 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
• I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
• 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
• 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
• I'm fairly sure they were deliberately straggling so they could get the prize for coming last.
• I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
• We were visiting a small , thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt.
• The Vine - straggling and green - shaded garden is ideal for cocktail parties, lawn wedding, fashion events.
• 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