How to Use bedraggled in a Sentence

bedraggled

adjective

• She was bedraggled and exhausted.
• NOw is a great time to clean up the old leaves that may be a bit bedraggled.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• The raccoon looked a bit bedraggled but healthy after it was caught before dawn atop the UBS Plaza.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• Now, as hair salons reopen the world over after a covid-19 hiatus, the bearded and bedraggled are flocking back to the pros.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• That is stoking fears that the bedraggled economy could stall.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 19 July 2019
• Most days and nights the northwest corner of 27th and State streets in Bronzeville is a bedraggled and dispiriting place, the sort of empty lot so common across many parts of the city.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
• Sure, things may look a bit bedraggled now; certainly the frozen camellia blossoms look very sad.
  — Nancy Brachey, charlotteobserver, 15 Jan. 2018
• Another sure way to make your garden beds look less bedraggled is to edge them, Stanchfield said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Straight ahead lies the bedraggled body of Zidane, defiantly fighting on, but for how long?
  — SI.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Suddenly my fashion shoots smelled of Phytoplage rather than Elnett and the girls looked bedraggled rather that jhoozed.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2018
• Iran's leaders hoped the nuclear deal would kick-start the country's bedraggled economy, but that has not worked in practice.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
• The Bruins landed only four more shots the rest of the night, the bedraggled Wings (now 5-12-1) mustering a stout third-period defensive game.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• The interior was empty save a few fixtures and a bedraggled Christmas tree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2020
• The story begins four million years ago in Africa, where a bunch of bedraggled primates are losing the battle of the survival of the fittest until a strange black monolith appears.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Woody Allen, meanwhile, is a begrudging (and slightly bedraggled) prep.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
• Three days later, the once beautiful Brazilian, now a weary and bedraggled prisoner, arrived back in Ohio.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2018
• Hallberg thinks Sanders pulls off the bedraggled shtick authentically but wouldn’t coach clients to use his hand gestures or posture.
  — Menachem Wecker, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
• Two little girls, one in a bedraggled party dress, followed us, whispering.
  — Michelle Green, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• A lone bedraggled Nazi sought sanctuary in a nearby supermarket, and slipped away.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• Turns out that no two persons in Washington County could have been better suited to rescue a confused, gimpy and bedraggled dog.
  — Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 17 Oct. 2017
• One man, bedraggled-looking, was buying a lottery ticket.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2018
• Moreover, despite her brilliance, Coffee could come across as bedraggled.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 19 Jan. 2017
• The light from Riis’s flash powder revealed the nooks and crannies of poverty, the chiaroscuro of dirt and bedraggled cloth on skin illuminated by a burst of fire from the gizmo that shocked the subjects being photographed.
  — Marlo Safi, National Review, 29 June 2019
• Two state troopers were handcuffing two lanky, bedraggled guys and had them leaning over the side of their rusted out Dodge Aspen, while two German shepherds sniffed the vehicle.
  — Anne Slowey, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2018
• Open since 2005, when the neighborhood was still bedraggled and dangerous, the hotel is considered the pioneer of Condesa cool.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2016
• Open since 2005, when the neighborhood was still bedraggled and dangerous, the hotel is considered the pioneer of Condesa cool.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2016
• Another shows a Tesla whisking away a bedraggled couple trapped in a post-apocalyptic oil field.
  — Louis Hansen, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2017
• Catherine May Levin's hothouse screenplay could be the story behind a photo like that, taking us into the mind of a bedraggled, alcoholic woman who peers out the window of what should be a splendid house.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
• Finally, to the north, there’s the impassive force of the Night’s King, who offers only the apocalypse, something more than a few bedraggled citizens of Westeros might welcome at this point.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2017
• His four-touchdown performance Sunday, even if against a bedraggled Jaguars defense, inspired a demanding critic to go public with praise for the 22-year-old rookie.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020

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