| We flew in from Santiago de Chile as the pink streaks of sunset straggled across the sky. |
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| This means that when some hounds are dragging or have found, the rest either never get to them or run in straggled batches. |
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| By the time he left school, workers in Clydebank straggled rather than streamed. |
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| In 1979 Chhomya was one of thousands of orphans who straggled back to Phnom Penh. |
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| After just over an hour of paddling, we straggled onto a beach called Santa Barbara, our first night's campsite. |
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| Of the 500,000 men who marched into Russia in June anticipating an easy victory, 20,000 straggled to safety six months later. |
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| Johnny and Harry straggled along, trying to keep up with Hugh's furious pace on the walk home. |
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| As the group straggled in, curious as to why they were contacted, they saw that Ken and Amy were already sitting at the table. |
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| Yet, Katherine noticed with a smile, his hair still straggled down past his ears. |
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| Greasy wisps of hair straggled across the girl's face and her skinny fingers were smudged black. |
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| We marched, some straggled, others were tossed into trucks and taken to the armoury. |
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| The quiet guitarist had twinkly green eyes and a mop of untidy, sand-coloured curls that fell across his forehead and straggled engagingly over the tops of his ears. |
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| Being in high spirits we all decided to walk home, we straggled along the track joking as we went. |
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| For the next two hours we straggled across this damp desert. |
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| Refugees straggled rather than surged across the bridge into Iraq, slumping on the stony ground in tired groups. |
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| Even as the fort took shape they attacked army and emigrant trains, stole livestock, and killed careless travelers who straggled too far from large groups. |
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| Krampus' appearance traditionally has long goats horns, straggled hair, cloven hooves and a forked tongue. |
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| A large pond lay in front of it, and orchards straggled to one side. |
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| The battered ship straggled into dock, and grateful scientists unlashed themselves from their bunks, tiptoeing around bashed furniture and shattered glass. |
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| While this was going on, Edward's main battle force, his foot, marched and straggled in much disarray towards the battlefield, arriving in dribs and drabs through the late evening. |
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| Legend has it that a lone survivor straggled home, accusing the islanders' allies a bunch of rebel Bretons of abandoning them in battle near Rennes. |
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| Her complexion was of an unhealthy yellowish hue, and a few wisps of the same yellowish-hued hair straggled stringily down her thin temples. |
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| His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat. |
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