stragglingly
- a word derived from straggle.
Example Sentences
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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 Hall, Bolton
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 Beale, Anne
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 Lillibridge, Will
This he followed up till the pursuit came stragglingly to an end, and the trail of the fugitive stood out alone and distinct.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
