straggle
verb (used without object)
to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals.
have been straggling
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present perfect progressiveof straggle.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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During the 20-odd years since my hospitalizations, many parts of my old self have been straggling home.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
Disarming the Katangese For nearly two months now, bands of heavily armed but bedraggled guerrillas have been straggling back to their base camps inside Angola, mostly by way of Zambia.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It may well be so, Sir John, for they have been straggling in by twos and threes for the last month."
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
