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

The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You question my talents? A half-dead mortal straggles into my swamp and questions my talents?”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan