straggly

How to use straggly in a sentence

• There were some pools of water standing in a coulee, at whose head grew a clump of wild plum trees and other straggly growth.

  The Way of a Man | Emerson Hough

• Presently he saw a number of straggly things dangling downward from the rocks and soil overhead.

  The Boy Land Boomer | Ralph Bonehill

• His straggly gray beard confronted the fire-fighters everywhere, goading on the laggards, cheering the valiant.

  The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy

• Fancy calling that wiry stuff grass in England, and admiring those straggly creepers and shrubs.

  The Moving Finger | Mary Gaunt

• The main column of soldiers far below poured up to the village and went down the straggly street in a tide of dark figures.

  The Invaders | William Fitzgerald Jenkins