straggly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of straggly
Example Sentences
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He’s quite small and wiry, with straggly ginger hair and a moustache that curls out from both sides – like antlers!
From Literature
He bit his lips, chapped as Celia’s and mine were, but there was something about him, his eyes almost hidden under straggly hair, that made me think of Devlin.
From Literature
A white man with grey, straggly hair stroked his bearded chin.
From BBC
His beard - brown and trim when I first encountered him in the besieged Donbas town of Lysychansk in 2022 - is now straggly and grey.
From BBC
Flip this folded dough over so the seam is on the bottom, smooshing in any straggly bits, and sprinkling flour over any naked chunks of butter or otherwise sticky spots.
From Washington Post
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