Example Sentences

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Supposedly live stand-ups are shaggily delivered in front of green screens steps away from the host in the same studio.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2023

So begins a shaggily plotted whodunit that the movie approaches with a sometimes charming, sometimes tiresome and faintly Raymond Chandler-esque reluctance to solve.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022

They are shaggily dressed in furs of tawny and buff, with bulky, leonine ruffs around their necks.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2020

Then Jenny Vidbel arrived with a string of ponies, which were then joined by a herd of horses, galloping shaggily in formation.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017

His face, unwashed since yesterday, looked pallid and clammy; his hair was tossed shaggily about his forehead, and his closed eyes had the sunken look which follows upon watching and sorrow.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George