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scraggly

[skrag-lee] / ˈskræg li /


Example Sentences

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All I see are scraggly brown and green lines.

From Literature

A thin man with scraggly gray hair and a dirty white T-shirt stood on the porch of the closest house.

From Literature

A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel.

From Barron's

Her two children, Jackson and Jesse, are scraggly moppets in some scenes and almost adults in others.

From Salon

It was just a field of shrubs and grass and a few scraggly trees.

From Literature