Example Sentences

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Nursing every shot, Cotton reached the turn in 35, to learn that Whitcombe had straggled in with 76 for a total of 292.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not long before, the miners, their faces smudged a ghastly grey, had straggled wearily up the shafts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within 20 days all but Haugland and the navigator had straggled in.

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Yet one final, unlisted event was under way well before the last athletes had straggled out of Olympic Village.

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They had been moving in a group, or trying to: actually, they had straggled widely at times.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams