straggly

• “He just hates what he calls straggly straight hair.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2007

• “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.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “At the Riding-house in Nicolson Street was a kind of straggly group, with red-coats interspersed.”

  Thomas Carlyle

• “He pointed to the straggly, exhaust-choked line of spiny hedging that grew against the railing.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Priest

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: I’ll Walk Alone

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: SuperCooperators

• “One December day we found an old straggly cat at our door.”

  The Stray Cat « You Got to be Kidding's Blog

• “Fog darkened the wood and hung over the pond, turning the straggly trees near the shore into ghostly figures.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

• “Reid, a six-foot-four British-Jamaican with an unkempt semi-Afro and a straggly beard, attracted considerable attention from security officers, particularly when they found a magazine he was carrying that showed a picture of Osama bin Laden.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “He was originally portrayed as having neatly trimmed purple-grey hair, but this was soon redesigned to be a long, straggly, grey-black mane, and more recently intodreadlocks.”

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