straggly

How To Use straggly In A Sentence

• Donnie raised his clean hand and dabbed the sweat from Steven's forehead, under his straggly hair.
• Along the way we encountered straggly herds of llamas and occasional wild dogs.
• His hair is a chestnut pompadour and he has a straggly moustache. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• Try on a cool beret, cowboy hat or newsboy to hide your straggly fringe.
• 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
• It was a shabby, straggly, unkempt little regiment, their faces chapped, their noses running in the cold.
• 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
• One December day we found an old straggly cat at our door. The Stray Cat « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
• 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.