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Meanings of straggly in English
Usage of straggly in English
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-hiseyes hazel, looking through spectacles wildly.
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Straggly through the time
Straggly across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common