Example Sentences

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"It was really challenging straggling down the rock faces to get to this shoreline and count all the plastic that was there," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2022

“Usually, you have to call somebody, somebody might be doing something different, come in straggling from special teams or something,” Morris said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2022

Now that nearly all the straggling ballots have been counted, it’s worth looking at what really stood out in the totals for Seattle’s key 2021 races.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Old men swing their arms with the vigor of cricket bowlers — not an Olympic sport yet — guiding a straggling journalist to a crosswalk.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

They had not gone far on the fifth day when they left the last straggling pools and reed-beds of the marshes behind them.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien