Verb (used without object), : The trees straggle over the countryside. From Dictionary.com.
She mutters something about her great fear of lightning and thunder; signs her name even more stragglingly than usual, and is at last led by. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
I repressed, I got thro 'them as hardly, as stragglingly there. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Shorter Poems] Reference
The water in the river is low, and spreads stragglingly over a wide surface. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
Finally, about noon, they kicked their two prisoners into the river, and took their way stragglingly back along the right-of-way. From Wordnik.com. [The Blazed Trail] Reference
As steel filings respond to a magnet, they came, and as inevitably; stragglingly, suspiciously by day, in flocks that grew to be a perfect cloud by night. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Trail Divides] Reference
Primitive conditions everywhere prevailed, and communities brooded in silence, growing stragglingly in sluggish indifference, content with coarse food and coarser living. From Wordnik.com. [Three Acres and Liberty] Reference
Upon these at last broke falteringly, stragglingly, a familiar voice, the voice of Abel Reverdy, kindly and uncouth as himself, and expressive, like his presence, of an impartial interest in the feelings of both the faithful and the unfaithful. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
He added, to the company generally, "Do you know what I think are the two lines of mine that go as deep as any others, in a certain direction?" and he began to repeat stragglingly certain verses from one of his earlier poems, until he came to the closing couplet. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
And yet recessive strains of the inner-directed type stragglingly, stubbornly, residually, partially, feebly persist on these shores; partly on account of sheer material inertia-the classic texts of the inner-directed era remain accessible to our other-directed fingers. From Wordnik.com. [AFF Doublethink Online] Reference
We rose stragglingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Wheel A Novel] Reference
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