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How to use straggling in a sentence

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I'm fairly sure they were deliberately straggling so they could get the prize for coming last.
They formed a long procession straggling on endlessly through the valley towards the distant roofs and church steeples of the Suburbs ahead.
He quickly went to shaving, trimming up his sideburns and removing straggling hairs on his chin.
Each tribe marched in a body and close to each other so that none might be left behind, nor was there any straggling allowed.
You can also use these scissors to trim the straggling hairs at the tops of your thighs.
And with PG Mateen Cleaves straggling, they could use a veteran in the backcourt behind PG Chucky Atkins.
The guardsman hit hard and lay still, and shouts of alarm and terror mixed with fresh cries of pain as arrows pelted his straggling rearguard.
Marissa also did her hair in a French twist, then curled the straggling pieces so they framed her face.
This straggling shrub grows about a metre high and is covered in golden globular flowers.
With a soapy hand, Inga swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the sink.
With a soapy hand, Inger swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the dishpan.
The Indians are constantly prowling around trying to steal our horses and kill straggling men.
Imagine having a dozen TV cameras trained upon you over eight hours with you sporting straggling hair, two-day stubble and dirty fingernails.
The colours are deftly placed, the flaunting red of the carnation answering the scarlet of the nasturtiums straggling on the plinth below.
At 6pm, Masters, rum in pocket, swaggers down the street like a dishevelled Pied Piper with about 60 young devotees straggling along behind him.
I slicked my wet hair back, clearing the straggling tresses from my face.
One intense young American with Maori tattoos on his legs and a straggling beard tells his fascinated fellows of his experiments with colonic irrigation.
Her sari was torn, her hair straggling, her fingernails ruined.
So when the door swings open, I wonder who this man is with the long, straggling grey hair and the face that looks like it has been in a long brawl with life.
When Forrest took off on that long run of his, cris-crossing the US with a band of straggling devotees in the film Forrest Gump, he was probably suffering from dromomania.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Some patches of stiffer soil were covered with box or with straggling apple-gum and bloodwood.
A conjurer must have his time, like a straggling priest in the settlements.
The hull control rooms were dimly with earthlight straggling through the windows.
It is a short, unattractive tree, with epigeous branches spreading out in a straggling manner.
The kanga Maru listed to port and disappeared in the waves, over which a few straggling American shots swept.
Maquoit was a straggling hamlet at the head of a cove which nicked the coast-line.
The walking wounded still come straggling in, singly or in groups, all greatly depressed at having such bad news to relate.
Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
Strung out in a straggling line of erratically progressing units, the men of Earth headed for the caves.
The village of Swinehurst is a straggling line of half-timbered houses of the early English pattern.
His hand supported his chin so that his long straggling beard protruded in a curious Egyptian horizontality.
His eyes were wash-blue, and his straggling mustache drooped at the corners.
That is the appointed time for the daily emigration, and until all the taskwork is done, no straggling whatever is permitted.
The gigantic squatter removed his pipe from his mouth and smoothed the thready white beard, straggling over his chin.
The house occupied by him at MERS was the last of the straggling village, and stood on a rising cliff.
The carpet and furniture are strewed with long, straggling pieces of packthread.
Dangling participles, trailing relatives, and straggling generalities can find no chance to hang on to a periodic sentence.
Ronald Mervyn was amused at the variety of the crowd in the straggling streets of Port Elizabeth.
It was tied with the greatest caution, and directed in a straggling hand.
They were all signed in a strange, straggling hand, by the witness.
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