The smallest duckling tends to straggle far behind the others. From LearnThat.org.
A straggle of outbuildings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A straggle of followers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Somewhere in the darkness, I straggle to the light. From Wordnik.com. [Richie Havens: A Folk Icon, Still Strumming] Reference
For buds that rise to straggle, as their arbours be. From Wordnik.com. [Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising] Reference
To get a living at all, they would have to straggle. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
"Get away from me," Surprise said, renewing her straggle. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
These watched the flanks, and would not permit any to straggle. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers Third Book] Reference
That is, they must not be allowed to straggle up a long way apart. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
I'm starting to straggle away from everyone, and that's no suprise. From Wordnik.com. [yanxious Diary Entry] Reference
A few clips, gifts from Elise, kept the straggle ends from her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference
There was hardly anybody in, just us and a straggle of Scandinavians. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
More fans straggle in, three claiming to have come from 200 miles away. From Wordnik.com. [In Search Of The Blair Witch] Reference
Strongfist's mouth curved within the bushy straggle of beard and moustache. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Heaven forgive me for suffering my Imagination to straggle into a Region of. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 12 April 1764] Reference
Notice how they straggle, can't keep a straight line or an even distance apart?. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
She had wispy hair, gone to silver and let loose to straggle over her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
There was a single fish pond, a straggle of fruit trees, and several empty animal pens. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
"The rest of you straggle out so that you can get off the road quickly if anyone comes.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
I marched about half an hour and had to fall out of ranks and straggle along as best I could. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
He massaged his brow, the fingertips out of habit stroking the rough straggle of his eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
In another hour a younger crowd would straggle in for desert or fries after the movies let out. From Wordnik.com. [Four To Score]
I wish the child wouldn't let her hair straggle in front of her ears and look so harum - scarum. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
Things like this make me want to straggle people. .and I felt like stranggling him at that point. From Wordnik.com. [mesocyclone Diary Entry] Reference
One morning at 5: 30, crew members straggle up a rocky hill to shoot a funeral-pyre scene at dawn. From Wordnik.com. [A Star's Trek] Reference
And what did their images — but love, and want, and straggle — things far more live than they?. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
The tree is always low and crooked, just as you see it, and the branches straggle not very gracefully. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
Even the vendors were more low-key as they lounged in the sun, watching the first customers straggle by. From Wordnik.com. [Leave a Message for Willie]
Perhaps even the greatest merit cannot successfully straggle against unfortunate and disagreeable manners. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
It was only too easy for a man to straggle from the company and not be missed until hours and miles later. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Ignoring Gabe, who had ceased to straggle against his captors, Driscoll addressed the other commissioners. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
The Gerente, marching in some time later at the head of a straggle of men, was inclined to agree with him. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
When the plants began to straggle about and bend over stakes were driven into the ground and the plants tied to these. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
As for the outsiders who straggle in casually for luncheon and want to be sharp with "Mr." afterwards, they are soon settled. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892] Reference
They straggle along, scarcely less irregular in aspect than the main body of the procession; they march to the tap of the drum. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
Carolina will straggle long and hard, but she must ultimately yield; and the soft zephyr of freedom will then fan the fair fields of. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
Chemnitz; up steep hill paths, and by the side of unpronounceable villages, until, on the morning of the fourth day, we straggle into. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
The humbler houses of Liebenstein (for the greater part timber-framed and red-tiled) straggle up the immediate hills which surround it. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
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