| The ladies were left to straggle after them, a varied procession up the trail. |
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| The epicentre of Kerala's spice trade is the dusty straggle of rickety warehouses and open-fronted shops known as Jewtown. |
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| A small girl kept her distance and looked on from beneath the unkempt fringe of a straggle of ravenesque hair. |
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| Too suddenly over the park came evening to tinge a straggle of clouds and bring fresh intensities to the still green trees. |
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| He first appeared at Wimbledon in 1972, winning the junior title, a lanky Swedish youth with a straggle of blond brown hair. |
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| Tara heard her mom straggle up the trailer's steps and open up the front door. |
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| Lia ran a hand through her hair and leaned forward, allowing a few wispy tendrils to straggle free from her messy ponytail. |
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| It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy. |
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| By the time we straggle into Bimbila, Schroeder has ridden 20 miles on a bumpy dirt track without a saddle, not complaining once. |
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| Normally, however, an army living off the country tended to straggle and to load itself down with loot. |
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| They can watch us sitting in the draught at the door of the hall with a hat collecting pound coins as villagers straggle in to watch the latest show. |
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| Elsewhere in the court a flock of life-sized sheep straggle across a field of AstroTurf. |
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| He returns to the place of his childhood holidays on the Gold Coast to find that the straggle of fibro cottages has given way to rows of anonymous high-rise apartments. |
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| This figure does not include many more millions of American women who straggle with that last fifteen to twenty pounds they can't seem to shake. |
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| Older prose fictions often have titles which straggle, unthriftily, by mentioning so many unknowns that we forget all of them as we plod down their title-pages. |
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| Armed with 18th century maps he showed me the straggle of ruined cottages once occupied by poor country folk who worked for a pittance on local farms. |
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| Seven years ago, Margaret and Iain bought a straggle of tumbledown farm buildings on a south-facing hillside at Glecknabae in the north of the island. |
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| On the map the village appears to be nothing more than a straggle of houses but actually includes a large Victorian school, antique shop and butcher. |
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| Spyglass to eye, scanning the immediately impingent literary horizon, a mere straggle of isolate figures come into focus. |
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| In the French 55e Division at Sedan, some troops began to straggle to the rear and in the evening panic spread through the division. |
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| Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. |
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| Scores more straggle in most days, many half-starved. |
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| In their faces we caught the same dilly look we have so often seen in the faces of the women who straggle along 14th Street, blocking our passage. |
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| Its liabilities are great, and its main asset is a patchwork of rail lines that straggle from Minnesota into South Dakota, hardly an industrial hotspot. |
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| During the fight for independence, it had been entirely evacuated in 1827, and six years later it held perhaps 4,000 people in the straggle of little houses on the north slope below the Acropolis. |
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| Only the horrible smell remains, imprisoned in the earth reddened by blood, in the shreds of viscera that straggle on the ground, ingrained in the blankets that had carried the dead. |
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| At Milton the road is blocked by yet another Anzac parade, a straggle of people raw-faced in the cold. |
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