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

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 students are straggling through the conference center to their dorms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The villages are straggling, queer, old-fashioned places, the houses being dropped down without the least regularity, in nooks and out-of-the-way corners, by the sides of shadowy lanes and footpaths, each with its patch of garden.

From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas

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 Fletcher, John Gould