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Meanings of
straggly
in anglès
Spreading out in different directions.
sprawling
rambling
straggling
Related terms
untidy
Straggly.
Related terms
distributed
Usage of
straggly
in anglès
1
It was hard to imagine these
straggly
bushes bursting with new growth.
2
Sometimes his hair was tightly cropped; at other times, it was
straggly
.
3
The tumbledown surf club right next door with its
straggly
red hibiscus.
4
At long filthy dreads matted up with the troll's greasy,
straggly
beard.
5
They're black and lustrous, but by leaving them
straggly
they're a blemish.
6
Her long
straggly
hair was white, streaked with grey and packed dirt.
7
It was no longer an expensive,
straggly
impersonation of an English page boy's.
8
Sunflowers get brown and
straggly
looking before the season is past its prime.
9
Finally, the hand ceased to follow the lines, and became
straggly
.
10
His
straggly
,
wiry moustache brushed her forehead in a good-night kiss.
11
Cornelia goes to the garden, where the roses look
straggly
,
untended.
12
Across the room you could see his close, hatchet nose and
straggly
beard.
13
A stumbling, senile,
straggly
bearded figure Metran had seemed when they first arrived.
14
His
straggly
hair was at least that long in the back.
15
Sometimes they were hoboes on whom
straggly
women shut farm-house doors.
16
His hair was grey-rather long and
straggly
-
his
eyes
hazel, looking through spectacles wildly.
Other examples for "straggly"
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straggly
Adjective
Adverb
Frequent collocations
straggly beard
straggly hair
straggly blond
straggly bushes
straggly black
More collocations
Straggly
through the time
Straggly
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common