Verb (used without object), : The trees straggle over the countryside. From Dictionary.com.
The whole remnant of the wretched army now crossed in straggling parties to the landing-place. From Wordnik.com. [Three Months in the Soudan] Reference
Their light brown hair was worn in short, straggling ringlets in front, and twisted up with a comb behind. From Wordnik.com. [Verner's Pride] Reference
Here the memorandum ceased with a long line straggling from the letter y as if the writer had been surprised at his task. From Wordnik.com. [The Filigree Ball] Reference
She was dark, like her mother, but her features were irregular, and her hair fell in straggling, dim locks about her face. From Wordnik.com. [Further Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference
The clear whistle called the straggling figures together. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
Another reason for much of the straggling was the diet on which the men had to subsist. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
"Fort Pitt," as they were accustomed to call the straggling hamlet, stood at the foot of the hills at the confluence of the Allegheny and. From Wordnik.com. [Far Past the Frontier] Reference
Of harmony dispersed in straggling sounds. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth] Reference
And we've seen a couple people kind of straggling by, just kind of, you know, taking a break in between these rain bands. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008] Reference
It was on a par with a quite common punishment imposed on soldiers, "straggling" on a march. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A.] Reference
Many farms along the Selenga had a 'straggling' appearance, as if too large for their owners. From Wordnik.com. [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference
It might be useful, and was much needed, for "straggling" was one of the ranger-crimes most difficult to cure. From Wordnik.com. [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference
There was no more straggling, no more rear guards. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
One sees the straggling line of grimy, mud-stained men. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
"I'm sorry," she said to more than one straggling parishioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Died in the Waiting Room] Reference
A sonnet, like a rose tree may be allowed to grow straggling, but. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
British cantonment straggling some distance outside Berbera town. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
There were straggling pine trees and huge rocks that obstructed his gaze. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
"Dirty little huzzy!" and ground his straggling teeth as he thought of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Her hair was straggling into her face, and she was swaying where she stood. From Wordnik.com. [Mirror Must Out] Reference
"Oh, indeed I am that," replied the woman, brushing the straggling hair from her forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
The village, though not large, is a long one, straggling down a hill and along the narrow ravine. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Although Sheridan had been marching all day, his troops moved with alacrity and without any straggling. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
However, Philip carries out his plan, and takes her to the little straggling village of Brane l'Alleud. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
The mist had in a great measure cleared away, and the sunlight was straggling through the remaining clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
In that flight also, as they were straggling, and going different ways; they slew of them five thousand men. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
The enemies straggling in their flight were destroyed, as they were running through the land of Ephraim, and of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
Marlowe, who sat behind his desk like a grizzled polar bear, his thinning mane of white hair unkempt and straggling. From Wordnik.com. [Citadel] Reference
It was now a world of red earth and gold rocks and purple sage, with everywhere the endless straggling green cedars. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
A brunette woman in a black dress suit made the mistake of straggling behind of her friends, and Teresa reeled her in. From Wordnik.com. [toupee] Reference
The trees are usually more or less straggling growers, the fruit is of small size, but good for cooking or jam-making. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
It was so overgrown with weeds and moss and straggling creepers that it was obvious it had not been used for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Everyone else who was prominent in the '90s came straggling out, broken and crinkled, muttering something about Vanilla Ice. From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 reasons Christine O'Donnell might be a real witch] Reference
That night we stayed in Douma, a cluster of old stone dwellings long since overgrown by the straggling concrete of modernity. From Wordnik.com. [Walking in Palestine] Reference
As he advanced the straggling parties fled before him, until he reached Saltcatchers, where they had pitched their great camp. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
It was a strange, straggling-looking arrangement of recently put together frame houses, cranes, derricks, and piles of lumber. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
He usually chooses a thin tuft of grass on a level spot, but often in an open place concealed by only a few straggling blades. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
Is a bird not yet fledged, that hath hopped out of his nest to be chirping on a hedge, and will be straggling abroad at what peril soever. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
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