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

So the bees go by in murmurous bands, Drowsily wand'ring to happier lands Where the lilies draggle the bank.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

And why, pray, does it draggle this fashion?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes