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How to use frowsy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word frowsy? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It's wonderful, the amount of litter they manage to accumulate in these frowsy little shops where the whole stock is worth about fifty quid.
Two rather frowsy saloon girls, adorned with feathers and too much paint, were leaning against the bar, half-asleep.
But only she can provide the meaningful interruption into the frowsy narrative that has built around her.
I don't know if dog and cat diabetes are handled similarly but one of my cats was losing weight, his coat was frowsy and he drank a lot of water and urinated a lot at once.
Undisclosed sadness hangs heavy in the frowsy marsh and in the vines on the trees.
They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
Diaz is frowsy, whiny and has no chemistry with any other character.
Our frowsy English teacher who had invited Crockett to speak assigned each of us to read a different Dylan Thomas poem, and we each presented our poem to the class, and that was it for our education in poetry.
As Ruehl wittily plays her, with frowsy black bangs and lips set in a sardonic straight line, Eva is a canny monster, a funny, selfish force of nature.
Verl treasured a photograph showing her with the deed, standing in front of her neat clapboard house, a frowsy white dog leaning against her checkered skirt.
The McCains' ten homes and thirteen cars notwithstanding, everything to do with the McCain campaign has the frowsy feeling of a town next to a military base.
Hammons is a connoisseur of the frowsy and the ad hoc.
He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.
Examples from Classical Literature
He had a most amiable feeling towards it, were it ever so frowsy and undersized and sallow.
For the most part they were heavy, frowsy creatures, slatternly and uncouth.
Wade was not in a frame of mind to see any picturesqueness in that frowsy crowd.
The dull, black, frowsy outline of the valance above me was within an inch of being parallel with his waist.
Presently, Annie, the laundress, put her frowsy head in at the door.
I always did think those frowsy, romantic, unwashed peasant girls I had read so much about in poetry were a glaring fraud.
The young man lifted it, placed it over the frowsy face and moved one of the grotesquely relaxed limbs into a more comfortable position.
There rose into view the frowsy head and fat face of Jack's wife.
And what a sea of information is therein under that frowsy dome.
She indicated Grandmother by an inclination of her frowsy head.
A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton.
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