straggly
IPA: strˈægɫi
adjective
- Spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner.
- Not arranged in a line.
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Examples of "straggly" in Sentences
- The hairs are quite long and straggly.
- He just hates what he calls straggly straight hair.
- One December day we found an old straggly cat at our door.
- Belle appeared dirty and straggly with rain rot patches on her back.
- It has a straggly, but rigid habit and is armed with long straight spines.
- Plants become straggly and untidy with age, so should be pruned when young.
- It has an erect and straggly habit, growing to between 0.2 and 1 metre high.
- It has an erect and straggly habit, growing to between 0.4 and 1 metre high.
- It has an erect and straggly habit, growing to between 0.5 and 3 metres high.
- He pointed to the straggly, exhaust-choked line of spiny hedging that grew against the railing.
- At the Riding-house in Nicolson Street was a kind of straggly group, with red-coats interspersed.
- Fog darkened the wood and hung over the pond, turning the straggly trees near the shore into ghostly figures.
- His thinning white hair was straggly on his skull, his worn Dallas Cowboys jacket in need of replacing, his jeans hanging loose on his body, his feet clad in old sneakers.
- Steve Jones, then a student at University College London, recounts how he was approached by a stooped middle-aged American with a straggly beard and wild hair who told me, with great intensity, that he had a hotline to Jesus.
- It's a wonderfully evocative and private moment, the boy looking kind of straggly and no longer hip without the rain coat and leather jacket to bulk him up, and the girl suggesting her sensuality and sexiness with just the slender curve of her back to the camera.