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How to use scraggy in a sentence

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Her dark blonde hair was scraggy and flyaway and her face told a story of beauty aging gracefully.
Yeah, you guessed it, his scraggy long hair was of the same disarrangement on his return.
There were flies by the billions, dirt and refuse everywhere, and scraggy dogs searching in the stalls for food.
The Prior planted his crops around them, and in their shade the scraggy sheep nibbled the grasses.
A scraggy goat has two Queen's College pupils to thank for its life after spending a week in a small crevice on a rugged mountain top.
I went to check my balance at a cashpoint and noticed a rather scraggy man leaning in the window of a white van parked beside the cashpoint.
I always found myself embarrassed when confronted with pictures of scraggy or sagging wives and overfed, grinning offspring.
One day in the mountains I met a young shepherd and we chatted for over half an hour while his scraggy sheep tinkled and grazed.
I sat next to a scraggy woman whose child in the seat behind leant forward between us and asked her why some people go on holiday on their own.
Tina smiled at a scraggy boy who was leaning against the railing as she walked past him.
Last year a thin, scraggy squirrel appeared in my garden from nowhere, looking hungry.
He is described as aged 40 to 45, about six feet tall with grey, scraggy shoulder length hair.
In the old days, dogs and cats were happy with a scraggy old blanket to curl up in.
I recognized the face, which was a bit scraggy, but I couldn't reconcile with my memory as to how I knew her.
At last, you will arrive to the tundra after crossing a scraggy tree forest, called krummkolz.
The problem is not without solution, for if trees are lopped methodically, they can still give a large quantity of fodder, and yet not become weak and scraggy.
He said he had noticed that they all started with the same scraggy street kid hair cuts, their shoulders drooped, they were shy and they were scared.
Unknown to her, a tall, scraggy man stood in the doorway, watching her.
His image has always been one of a man apart, the scraggy hair, ear-ring and stubble complementing a dress sense that could be labelled urban grunge.
This scraggy patch of land, part of London's green belt, has been protected from the bulldozers for nearly 60 years.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We passed through the scraggy uplands of Lower Macedonia, and so to Salonika.
Probably he was tired of water, and swamp and water, and scraggy trees and water.
It was a scraggy sorrel with twitchy ears and wicked eyes, but it looked tough as a mountain buck.
The trees were scraggy, loppy old things hanging down in dismal sweep over the leaky roof and damp walls.
It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
But it is the scraggy ones who seem to delight in displaying their angles.
Jasper twisted his scraggy neck nervously in his loose collar.
He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.
She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck.
The woman of the house, a scraggy, genteel person, tried even to provoke confidences.
It's your floppy, scraggy earlobes that really mark you as an oldster, which means cosmetic ear surgery is the next Next Big Thing.
Paklin made a sad grimace, and pointed to his scraggy, crippled legs.
But scraggy was faithful to his trust, and revealed nothing.
With this they bought thirty-five acres of scraggy farm land.
She raised up a panel which was leaning against the wall, and showed a rude painting of a scraggy and angular fowl, with very long legs and a spotted body.
They were nearing the toolhouse before Scraggy came into Lem's mind.
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