draggle

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“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

Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River.

From Literature

He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild.

From Literature

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