straggly
Example Sentences
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Two years ago, he turned several straggly islands off Miami into blooming lily pads by surrounding them with hot-pink fabric.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
His beard - brown and trim when I first encountered him in the besieged Donbas town of Lysychansk in 2022 - is now straggly and grey.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024
His floor-length fur is straggly and windblown, giving him a disheveled look incongruent with this toy breed’s stereotypical silky-smooth fur and ribbons in their hair.
From Slate • Jul. 15, 2023
Flip this folded dough over so the seam is on the bottom, smooshing in any straggly bits, and sprinkling flour over any naked chunks of butter or otherwise sticky spots.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023
At least Zephyr’s sun-blaze of long straggly surfer hair is nowhere in sight.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
