draggle

Example Sentences

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As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few feet from the coach the water appeared to deepen, and the bear-skin to draggle.

From Jeff Briggs's Love Story by Harte, Bret

Drail, drāl, n. the iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw: a piece of lead round the shank of the hook in fishing.—v.i. to draggle.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The Sunflower Ranch needs my talents, so I can’t go with the crowd, but I may draggle in about high noon.

From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.