(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".
Ramshackle
Definition:
(a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
(v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
Example Sentences:
(1) As we settle down to chat in the deputy prime minister's ramshackle constituency base at 85 Netherfield Road, Sheffield, it is hard to dispel the impression that he's still a man under siege.
(2) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(3) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
(4) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(5) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
(6) Then he showed me another yellow building; this one was more like a ramshackle shed, with wooden props that looked like they were stopping it collapsing into the mud.
(7) The conference communique, drafts of which have been widely leaked , recognises, in effect, that the ramshackle, temporary governance arrangements in place since 2004 have not worked and are no longer sustainable.
(8) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
(9) A few years later, Davies had his own ramshackle premises; in 2011, Tangled Parrot was named Wales's best independent record shop, just as he was expanding the business to include the Parrot Music Bar and Café .
(10) Fires regularly swept through the ramshackle huts, which remained until the local government built high-rise flats in 1970.
(11) Arcade Fire's sound is all their own, and it has become – even with its moments of ramshackle amateurishness, and its merging of the raw and the refined – one of the key rock signatures of recent times.
(12) We fled the capital almost a decade ago, swapping a rented flat in Kennington, south London, for a mortgage on a ramshackle old house in the Oxford suburbs.
(13) And Adriana spoke on her own behalf: “One of the most important changes in my path being involved in the Alex Nieto case has been to learn more about restorative practices, because as someone trained in legal systems, I know that the pain and fear that we are not safe from police in our communities will not go away until there is personal accountability by those who harm us.” Fear that we aren't safe from police in our communities won't go away until there's accountability by those who harm us Adriana Camarena Adriana, her historian husband, and their friends – including an Aids activist and a choreographer – who live nearby in a ramshackle old building, had faced their own eviction battle last year, and won it.
(14) There were two: a ramshackle center housing a combined pharmacy, city hall and police station, and a Payday Loans outlet decorated with neon lights, promising $10,000 on the spot.
(15) That conflict has deeply divided Lebanon along sectarian lines, and paralysed the country's ramshackle political system to the point that it has been stuck with a weak and ineffectual caretaker government since April.
(16) The city’s walls have become complex documents, authored and re-authored like ramshackle Wikipedia pages.
(17) Layali was born on 7 October 1998 on the open deck of a ramshackle fishing boat crammed with 74 migrants.
(18) Voted for by approximately 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes have faced criticism for what is perceived as their ramshackle structure and lowbrow sensibility.
(19) The family has been working on farmland to cover rent for two ramshackle tents on the edge of a field since February 2012.
(20) Casas da Comporta, Alentejo Don't be fooled by the sleepy, slightly ramshackle air: Comporta is where Lisbon's fashion and media set come to get some sand between their perfectly manicured toes.