(1) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(2) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(3) At the base gates an American sentry, suspicious of the bedraggled Afghan, yelled at him to stop.
(4) Among those who finally decided that Kobani was on the brink was Mukdad Bozan, travelling with his wife, a wailing baby and three bedraggled older children.
(5) A telling paragraph in the club’s accounts reads: “The directors believe the company is not at risk with its strong financial position, no borrowings, an increased turnover and a modern fit-for-purpose stadium to play in.” Yet Blackpool’s healthy financial position is at odds with their performance on the pitch – a pitch, incidentally, that has not been relaid since the summer of 2013 and would shame even the most bedraggled of municipal surfaces.
(6) McMahon passed that on to his England team-mates, who figured they'd be lining out the next day against a band of bedraggled buffoons.
(7) Nearby, two clerks from India's ministry of women and child welfare wheel piles of brown, bedraggled office files on swivel chairs toward a waiting van bound for the central records office.
(8) Others still hold out hope of moving northwards, with a group of bedraggled asylum-seekers dressed in oversized anoraks holding up a German flag on Wednesday, signalling that they still hoped to get to Germany.
(9) We’ve got a point, we will carry on working tomorrow and I’m sure that if we apply ourselves as we did in the second half we will get more points.” That may turn out to be true, but much of the fans’ frustrations here stemmed from the fact that Rayo appeared far more alert than their bedraggled hosts from the start; with just two minutes gone the left-back Nacho volleyed at goal and forced a corner.
(10) The role requires a substantial downgrading of Cotillard's natural glamour – Sandra is rake thin and washed out, emotionally bedraggled and popping Xanax.
(11) They could have led by the required scoreline at half-time, such was the pace, power and penetration of their game and so bedraggled were Galatasaray.
(12) We must look a bedraggled mess when we arrive because lovely owners Elena and Roberto rush to dry us and warm us up, show us our cosy larch-floored room and give us drinks, and even the keys to their car, so that we can drive to the nearest restaurant still open, in Alagna.
(13) With two goals in Sunday's demonstrative romp-and-stomp over StubHub Center tenant Chivas USA (nobody really calls this a "rivalry" anymore … not even the priciest PR firm could spin it thusly considering Chivas' bedraggled state) Donovan has matched Jeff Cunningham's all-time mark of 134 league goals.
(14) They have become ideal opposition for those in need of a win, whether a bedraggled Chelsea last Saturday or a besieged Manuel Pellegrini.
(15) Gunfire and shelling had tailed off in Debaltseve by Thursday morning, after thousands of Kiev’s forces made a bedraggled, dangerous retreat from its bombed-out streets.
(16) As Worthy Farm's usual residents – 350 dairy cows – were set to replace Glastonbury's 170,000 bedraggled festival-goers, Eavis cannily set the rumour mill rolling for next year's headliners.
(17) Sadly, what we are likely to see in the red box is a few bedraggled rabbits offering pre-election gimmicks and the chance to drown our sorrows for a few pennies less this year.
(18) You can merely choose between wearing something protective and becoming soaked in sweat from the inside, or something cool and becoming bedraggled in the traditional manner by the precipitation outside.
(19) The sight of so many Uncle Sams, Statues of Liberty and Captain Americas traipsing the last few miles of dual-carriageway hard-shoulder like bedraggled refugees should make Fifa question their criteria for stadium allocation (it won’t).
(20) Inside the ceremony at a university sports hall in the New England university town of Durham a clergyman intervened to denounce gays in lubricious detail, while outside a bedraggled group of demonstrators waved banners warning "Fags Doom Nations".
Dilapidated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Dilapidate
(a.) Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children still received an education, it was just that increasing numbers did so in damp and dilapidated buildings.
(2) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
(3) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(4) It was shot on location in Hollywood, with the real Jim Henson Studios standing in for the dilapidated Muppet Studios; Miss Piggy's costumes are all designer, as any star of her stature might expect, and include a pair of trotter-sized Louboutins.
(5) At least 74 people have been arrested, including Abarca and his wife, who were found Tuesday hiding in a dilapidated home in a rough section of Mexico City.
(6) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(7) The place smells like wet cigarettes, and while the dilapidated building does have its charm, it feels as old as the games it houses.
(8) Even in its dilapidated state, it still received more than 140,000 visitors last year.
(9) Since the second world war, the area’s towering Georgian terraces, subdivided and dilapidated, had first been a semi-slum of immigrants and bad landlords, then a counterculture stronghold for squatters and hippies and punks.
(10) Perhaps this tragedy causes us to ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated schools, or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career.
(11) As well as dilapidated equipment, the country's military and police suffered a serious problem of infiltration, with some officers helping the separatists.
(12) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.
(13) The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this dilapidated shelter is his only shade from the sweltering tropical sun.
(14) The shells of dilapidated factories look out over an urban landscape that has been likened to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina – except Detroit's disaster was man-made and took decades to unfold.
(15) Thirty-two men and a boy now held at an immigration detention centre near Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, were rescued last Saturday when their dilapidated wooden vessel began sinking while making a perilous journey to Malaysia.
(16) Close up, the greenhouses lie derelict and trees rampage through their dilapidated timber frames.
(17) A couple of years ago a dilapidated little cinema called Shama was blown up in Peshawar.
(18) But we have already seen that Kane is dead and his Florida folly slowly turning into a dilapidated ruin.
(19) For example, the money could go towards improving the dilapidated Fairfield Halls theatre and concert venue.
(20) • Hrunalaug – a hot pot with a dilapidated changing hut in a grassy dell a few kilometres from Flúdir.