BEDRAGGLE in a Sentence

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Scarlett was afraid someone would notice her bedraggled state and realize that this was her only nice dress.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEDRAGGLE
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bedraggle
 v.  wet thoroughly; stain with mud; soil or wet by dragging in dirt, mud, moist places
Classic Sentence:
1  Scarlett was afraid someone would notice her bedraggled state and realize that this was her only nice dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  His appearance, in short, presented an odd mixture of the bedraggled and the ferocious.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
3  In front of it a sagging woman with tight-drawn hair, and a baby bedraggled, smeary, glorious-eyed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Each morning she was nauseated, chilly, bedraggled, and certain that she would never again be attractive; each twilight she was afraid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  I was just bedraggled and unhappy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
7  The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
9  At home she wondered if the little beast might not be suggesting himself as a rival to Erik, but that abysmal bedragglement she would not consider.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  The severe storms bedraggle so heavily that we have to change into dry clothing.
2  Miss Watson had to purse her lips to show her disapproval of Huck's bedraggled appearance.
3  Exhausted soldiers crawled into camp, frozen and bedraggled.