draggle

Example Sentences

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As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat.

From Time Magazine Archive

And why, pray, does it draggle this fashion?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till!

From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap

The nice old maid near him turns away in disgust when she sees his moustaches draggle in the soup.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various