draggle

Example Sentences

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“We had to grow,” Alexandra hissed as she propped herself against the terminal, her dark hair a curtain draggling before her as she hung her head.

From The Verge

There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds.

From Literature

The mammoth is waist high, with a pelt of dirty-blond fur that hangs in tangled draggles to the dirt.

From The New Yorker

A shower of rain obliterated most of those labels, and left the figures themselves in a reduced and draggled condition.

From Project Gutenberg

The inn was, in fact, the worst in which I had stopped--the maid draggled and dirty, and smelling of the stable; the company three boors; the floor of earth; the windows unglazed.

From Project Gutenberg