Example Sentences

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Amelia was straggling in with bleary eyes, asking what was going on and why we were all so awake.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

Their progress was straggling and broken, slower than that which Holly had made with his picked band of three.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

She put her hand up to her hair, which had come out of its top-knot and was straggling about her face.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard

Fanny's lips were cracked, and the skin was peeled from her nose, and her hair was straggling and her eyes red-rimmed.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna

A last handful was straggling across the wide street.

From The Holes Around Mars by Bixby, Jerome