straggle
verb (used without object)
to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals.
stragglingly
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a word derived from
straggle.
Example Sentences
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The water in the river is low, and spreads stragglingly over a wide surface.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
She mutters something about her great fear of lightning and thunder; signs her name even more stragglingly than usual, and is at last led by Howel through the church to the carriage.
From Gladys, the Reaper by Anne Beale
As steel filings respond to a magnet, they came, and as inevitably; stragglingly, suspiciously by day, in flocks that grew to be a perfect cloud by night.
From Where the Trail Divides by Will Lillibridge
Pauline had Carew on her right hand and John Ash on her left; the four boys walked stragglingly, now in front, now behind, but never far from Carew.
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Primitive conditions everywhere prevailed, and communities brooded in silence, growing stragglingly in sluggish indifference, content with coarse food and coarser living.
From Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall
