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Example sentences for "shaggy"

Lexicographically close words:
shafting; shafts; shagbark; shagbarks; shagged; shagreen; shags; shahi; shak; shake
  1. Good Billy,' said Lucy, as, ashamed of her former fears, she patted his shaggy side.

  2. One moment they would see a pompous-looking man riding on a sturdy, shaggy pony; the next, a dandy being carried in a palanquin.

  3. Thorsen jabbed his toe into the shaggy body.

  4. His long, shaggy fur was tipped with silver, and on his underside it almost brushed the ground.

  5. Gregory shot a sharp glance at him, but all he saw was an elderly man, with heavy white hair and fierce shaggy eyebrows, a portly and dignified elderly gentleman, rather resentfully courteous.

  6. I--" David stiffened, but he surveyed his visitor impassively from under his shaggy white eyebrows.

  7. It was their first rough experience with men, and probably the one feeling in every shaggy head was of puzzled wonder as to how and why it had all happened.

  8. By way of an answer, a small brown monkey with shaggy fur walked slowly out of the brush.

  9. They had short squat legs like tree trunks; short squat little bodies with arms to match, and heads that were too large for their bodies with eyes that were buried beneath long straggly shaggy fur.

  10. Then we come to low shaggy rocks, forming pretty little bays, and a singular rock appears before us in the water, the terminating point of the promontory.

  11. Its little retiring bays and shaggy rocks reminded me sometimes of Loch Ketterine.

  12. He sees his white sheep dapple o'er the green New Zealand plain, And where Vancouver's shaggy ramparts frown, When the sunlight threads the pine-gloom he is fighting might and main To clinch the rivets of an Empire down.

  13. The burn brawls darkly down the shaggy glen; The bee-kissed heather blooms around the door; He sees himself a barefoot boy again, Bending o'er page of legendary lore.

  14. Thus there seemed to be no danger abroad, though they had told the girl of mad dogs which roamed the city, explaining that the hot weather affects powerfully the thick-coated, shaggy “malamoots.

  15. Just ahead of them was the Norwegian graveyard, where the grass had, indeed, grown back over everything, shaggy and red, hiding even the wire fence.

  16. Ivar lifted his shaggy head and looked at her out of his little eyes.

  17. The shaggy coat of the prairie, which they lifted to make him a bed, has vanished forever.

  18. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring.

  19. The old man fell in the road at her feet and caught her hand, over which he bowed his shaggy head.

  20. His shaggy white hair, falling in a thick mane about his ruddy cheeks, made him look older than he was.

  21. His shaggy head is scarcely whiter than it was sixteen years ago, but his little blue eyes have become pale and watery, and his ruddy face is withered, like an apple that has clung all winter to the tree.

  22. His mane, his shaggy flanks, were lathered as if he had been smeared with heavy soap-suds.

  23. She walked straight up to the wild, shaggy mustang with a confidence born of intuition and experience, and reached a hand for his head, not slowly, nor yet swiftly.

  24. The shaggy black horse stood there braced and indomitable.

  25. It was a huge, gaunt, shaggy black horse she saw, with the saddle farther up on his shoulders than it should have been.

  26. Mark ventured to open its blade, but he turned away with sudden consciousness, when he found that a few fibres of coarse, shaggy wool, that were drawn from the loosened joint, adhered to his fingers.

  27. His long thin gray hair dangled over his shoulders, his beard was white and scraggling, he had no cap or coat, the only garment being a shaggy buffalo skin wrapped about his gaunt body, with his legs below his knees bare.

  28. The nose was well formed, inclined to Roman, and his gray eyes under the shaggy grizzled brows were of piercing intensity.

  29. Uncle Elk seemed to be surveying the group from under his shaggy brows, but he acted as if he saw them not.

  30. Its most striking peculiarity is the bark, which clings in shaggy slabs to the trunk, the patches being stuck in the middle with the upper and lower ends curling outward; hence the name.

  31. Illustration: Bill stood before the fireplace, his shaggy fur cap pushed far back on his head.

  32. Bill stood before the fireplace, his shaggy fur cap pushed far back on his head, his gauntlets swinging from the cord about his neck.

  33. The shaggy old fellow blinked his eyes rapidly, then suddenly relieved his feelings with an outrageous burst of profanity.

  34. Eleanor sinks on her knees, and buries her head on Rover's shaggy coat.

  35. At his heels a shaggy dog, blind in one eye and toothless--one that in its puppyhood had leaped and played with Eleanor in the green fields of Copthorne Farm.

  36. Shepherd lads and shepherd dogs may be seen at this last moment preparing to watch the flocks by night, and long horned shaggy cattle browse at peace in the fading light.

  37. Some of the women had their heads and shoulders wrapped up in a triangular, black, shaggy sheepskin mantle; these were widows.

  38. I don't trust Shaggy Parsons for nothin', and I think you hear what you want to hear.

  39. And then Shaggy Parsons was saying that the whole unit was being split up--that's the A unit.

  40. No pedigree animal this, his lengthy horns, rather pointed nose, and shaggy mottled coat being redeemed by various features that tend to raise him from the mere ruck of the disappearing country-bred.

  41. Shaggy of coat, long of horn, and exhibiting an utter lack of restraint in the strangely varied colour scheme of their bodies, they are essentially of the criollo, or native, order.

  42. Then a copper-coloured forehead appeared, with a couple of very shaggy eyebrows and eventually a pair of eyes, which protruded from their sockets and looked yellow and unhealthy.

  43. So thought Girdlestone too, as he sat down below, with his head bent upon his breast and his eyes looking moodily from under his shaggy brows at the glowing coals.

  44. He was enveloped in a long shaggy ulster, which stretched down to his ankles, and he wore a velvet cap trimmed with silver stuck carelessly on the back of his powerful yellow curled head.

  45. From under the shaggy eyebrows of the merchant and the sparse light-coloured lashes of the major there came the same keen, restless, shifting glance.

  46. For a moment the major's brick-coloured, weather-beaten face assumed an even darker tint, and his small dark eyes looked out angrily from under his shaggy brows at his youthful companion.

  47. The shaggy beards and eyebrows are equally characteristic of the race; and their custom of occupying half-underground dwellings has given them the name by which they are remembered in Japan at the present day.

  48. The Moose's shaggy sides were heaving with suppressed laughter.

  49. Mooswa's shaggy shirt is good; but they scrape the hair off and make moccasins of the leather.

  50. Blue Wolf became a great dandy; brushed his coat--scraped the snow away from a moss patch in the Jack-Pines, and rubbed his shaggy fur till it became quite presentable.

  51. Then he coughed asthmatically, and Blue Wolf bounded into the open, shaking his shaggy coat.

  52. The fierce, copper-hued, shaggy faces, the gleaming eyes reflected in the firelight, were bent still more threateningly upon the speaker.

  53. The red fires shot up against shining rock reflection, throwing out exaggerations or silhouettes of the shaggy figures moving about.

  54. In this wild and shaggy land, the hand of everybody was against the intruder, the infidel.

  55. But the bearer, who had perforce been convened for purposes of the latter, had wilted and cowered before the lowering glances darted at him from under fierce shaggy brows, as a Hindu dog and an idolater.

  56. A grunt broke from the fierce shaggy faces; and the gleaming, hostile eyes seemed to take on a further deepening of hate and greed.

  57. He wondered at their long shaggy beards, and still more at the blue patterns with which the English among them, Hereward especially, were tattooed on throat and arm and knee.

  58. A Country of rocky defiles; lowish hills chaotically shoved together, not wanting their brooks and quagmires, straight labyrinthic passages; shaggy with wild wood.

  59. The sergeant stooped and patted the shaggy head consolingly, and tried to explain matters.

  60. In a shamefaced way he fetched from a tool-box a long-forgotten, strong little currycomb, such as is used on shaggy Shetland ponies.

  61. As years go, the shaggy little Skye was an old dog, but he was not feeble or blind or unhappy.

  62. After a long time he recognized the dog and patted the shaggy little head.

  63. For quite twenty minutes these neighbors and friends of Bobby filed by silently, patted the shaggy little head, looked at the grand plate with Bobby's and the Lord Provost's names upon it, and believed their own wondering een.

  64. With a vigorous shaking he broke and scattered the crust of snow that burdened his shaggy thatch.

  65. Edinburgh had so many shaggy little Skye and Scotch terriers that one more could go about unremarked.

  66. He would not stand still to be groomed, but wriggled and twisted and leaped upon the children, putting his shaggy wet paws roguishly in their faces.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaggy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.