draggle

Example Sentences

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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

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

Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul.

From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson

The most splendidly angelic inspirations will not suffice to compensate the poet for feet that draggle in the mud, or stumble higgledy-piggledy among stony words, which his toes should have kissed into jewels.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock

It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till!

From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap