straggle
verb (used without object)
to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals.
straggles
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present tense formof straggle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Thirty miles south, Old Lighthouse Road straggles to an end in a waterside housing development where air conditioning units sit on raised platforms.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
Second, he never wore his hair in long blond straggles, like a stoner Messiah; that, however, is the style favored by Moondog, as an accompaniment to his cacophonous shirts and his silver Ugg boots.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
It straggles, it is too long, but it has some of Bean's brio.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
His droopy white mustache straggles for existence on a face that frequently crinkles with shrewd, sloe-eyed smiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
I stressed to the assembled press the need for mutual communication and support between the Africans and Afro- Americans whose straggles were interlocked.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
