blowsy in a sentence

Examples

1. She will play the blowsy Martha to David Suchet's bespectacled George in a new production of " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?"
2. So is Aideen O'Kelly, who crops up in another flashback, as Gareth's blowsy aunt from Philadelphia on a sentimental trip to the auld sod.
3. Many a Westerner undoubtedly came to consider those performances _ often rough, blowsy and tubbily recorded, with basses to the fore _ idiomatic, if only by default.
4. Alma Thorpe, a blowsy mound of a woman in her 60s given to wearing big hair bows and quoting the Bible, appears to be a harmless Southern eccentric.
5. Burke plays a blowsy, overwrought trailer-park kind of gal whom we first see in baggy shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, with mascara running down her face.
6. Mama Sandra, on the other hand, is a delight _ a paragon of tawdry fashions, blowsy attitude and withering sarcasm encasing a vast reservoir of tolerance and understanding.
7. Blame it on Mari, her blowsy mother, played by Brenda Blethyn as a motor-mouthed, aging party girl who could cow any daughter into a silent streak.
8. The flower beds _ once kept low and tidy so as not to detract from the Green Animals _ are now blowsy with tall floppy things, like butterfly bushes and rudbeckia.
9. As filmy, shiny and full of texture as a cheap suit, Alan Rudolph's blowsy, sometimes funny romantic foray into marital dissatisfaction works _ most of the time.
10. Richard Billingham's sad, unflinching but loving photographs of his blowsy mother, pathetic alcoholic father and their unkempt home are hard to take because they are so powerfully truthful.