Straggling

He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table.

A general straggling, trampish look about him was not helped by patched blue fatigues.

People noticed back in the 70s or so that maybe one or two moose were straggling back into the Adirondacks.

The moonlight lay over a peaceful landscape of lawns and thickets, against which the straggling ruins of the old abbey stood out in tragic outlines, truncated columns, mutilated arches, fragments of porches and shreds of flying buttresses.