straggle
verb (used without object)
to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals.
are straggling
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present progressiveof straggle.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In the latest, runners representing South Sudan and Mali have broken the tape, while Ethiopia and Chad are straggling.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2018
The students are straggling through the conference center to their dorms.
From Time Magazine Archive
He compared some party leaders with commanders who are straggling in the trenches when their divisions are already on the attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last visitors are straggling off now, even to the final official.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
Not the cannon assembled for battle, Nor the gloomy graves of the hollow, Nor the house where I long time slumbered, Nor the hilltop where roads are straggling.
From Goblins and Pagodas by John Gould Fletcher
