straggle
verb (used without object)
to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals.
have straggled
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present perfectof straggle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Ever since Tibet's brave but abortive revolt against Red China in 1959, refugees have straggled across the border into India by twos and threes.
From Time Magazine Archive
For decades while we were silent our thoughts have straggled in all possible and impossible directions, we lost touch with each other, never learned to know each other, ceased to check and correct each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some 1,200 patients at an Iraqi psychiatric hospital who were relying on his group for food had escaped or been released, and now about half have straggled back.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dár el Baida seemed to have straggled over as much ground as Tangier, but the ground itself was flat and full of refuse.
From Morocco by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
It is now reported that Gen. Early made his escape, and that most of his men have straggled into this city.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
