draggle

Example Sentences

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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

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

I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie

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

Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul.

From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson