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Meanings of straggly in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sprawling"
Examples for "sprawling"
1
Power supplies in sprawling Dar es Salaam have worsened in recent years.
2
Building 3G networks across sprawling India will cost billions of dollars more.
3
Remember those were days before television's sprawling interest and radio's blanket coverage.
4
The play was sprawling, crude and, in my opinion, not very good.
5
Unaffected sections of the sprawling park remained open to visitors, it said.
1
Remember, Jodie Foster only came out in a rambling speech last year.
2
Hilda remained listening in the lobby to the interminable and rambling instruction.
3
His poor broken brain was rambling in the ways of the past.
4
There was something sinister in the unfriendly shadow of the rambling house.
5
She states that in general her mind is both romantic and rambling.
1
Our little army reached it after several days' straggling through the countryside.
2
They rode in no particular order, just a straggling column of riders.
3
The watchers pushed back along the side wall in a straggling line.
4
The straggling sail and wreck of the spars hanging over the side.
5
Pill occupied her time in putting her few straggling locks in curl-papers.
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