How to Use scraggly in a Sentence

scraggly

adjective

• Remove scraggly grass, weeds, rocks, and sticks from the area.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 21 June 2019
• The biggest clean up, of course, was the scraggly facial hair.
  — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 1 May 2017
• On a scraggly patch of grass astride the Grand Central Parkway, a screen had been set up.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• There are red and yellow leaves on scraggly trees and a hazy fog hanging in the air above the mountains.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• But this grouse buckled at my shot and kept climbing, over the scraggly cedars and through the wispy tops of the bare birches.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 18 May 2020
• If the front of the courthouse has scraggly landscape, just fire the company and try again.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2018
• To one side of the building, a scraggly volleyball net was strung up.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• There is the scraggly beard and the flowing hair, occasionally wound in a man bun.
  — David Pollak, New York Times, 20 May 2016
• But the truth is, turkeys really only need a couple of scraggly ones to roost in.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
• The object of the team’s efforts was a scraggly nest, about two inches wide, that was gusting around at the end of a branch four stories overhead.
  — Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
• Empire’s owner, a tall, skinny guy with a scraggly beard named Jim, told us about a cool, fairly new band.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
• The trees bloom almost everywhere, from those on ritzy streets on the Gold Coast of Pacific Heights, to scraggly street trees in grimy alleys.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2018
• Perhaps in response the free surfer has turned ever more scraggly-haired, more rambling beatnik.
  — Jamie Brisick, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Jeremy slurps the contents of his can, garbanzo juice dripping down his scraggly beard.
  — Sarah Aswell, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2017
• Projections of gray-scale scraggly lines and geometric patterns then hit each screen to create a feast for the senses.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 12 May 2017
• This scraggly desert prophet strolled into the gleaming metropolis of Samaria and took on a thousand false prophets in their fancy white robes.
  — Philip Yancey, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018
• The black-and-white photo, taken in 1935 when the family purchased the land, shows a barren landscape, dotted by a few scraggly trees in a row and scrub-brush grasses.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2017
• His Joe is a quiet, withdrawn, emptied-out husk of a man, with a scraggly gray beard, scars on his upper body and a talent for hurting people.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Some may think his look, with a scraggly beard and pencil atop his ear, isn’t NFL coach-like, but no one has ever questioned his coaching ability.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2018
• But for kids everywhere (or at least in my house), bony fingers, a scraggly voice, glassy eyes, and a flower that wilts with a kid’s worsening health were too much to handle.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2014
• Others in the audience wore scraggly beards and mismatched clothing.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 23 Oct. 2017
• Meyers is Jack, a scraggly stranger who defends Paul in a squabble at a diner, then accepts an offer to crash with him — and to serve as a sounding board for story ideas.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• On the southern edge of Tuscany, in a valley of scraggly oak, Riccardo Micheli didn’t have the luxury of saving his trees with water trucks.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Anthony Davis had feet planted in a bucket of ice and a scraggly beard curling out from beneath his hoodie, making him look like a cross between a monk and a stork.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• There were some scraggly bushes outside that his mom was always grumbling about pruning, a driveway leading past a fair-sized yard with bare patches where the dog did his thing.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2019
• Scrubbing brushes against the grain can open the cuticles of natural bristles and break off synthetic ones, both of which will leave you with scraggly brushes that don’t work as well.
  — Alexandra Tunell, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 July 2017
• Parcel B, which sits below the level of the AA Arena, does now have a clump of trees and scraggly grass west of the baywalk improvements, as well as a paved semi-circular roadway.
  — Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 31 May 2017
• An elfin-looking man with a scraggly beard and a penchant for robes, Schacknow declared himself an oracle of God, sent to save mankind by eradicating all evil from the Earth.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2019
• During a previous court appearance, on October 19, Kinsman had a scraggly beard, long hair, and wore a T-shirt and overalls.
  — Nadra Nittle, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• The conference is more labor of love than profit-making effort for Ries, who sports a mustache-less scraggly beard and, in a pinch, could play stunt double for actor Seth Rogen.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2018

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