lagged

Example Sentences

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Lagged that there dratted baby the whole way.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The second year, with feet of lead, Lagged slowly by till Spring had plumped the willow sprays.

From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy

Have you been sore discouraged in the fight, And even sometimes weighted by the thought That those with whom and those for whom you fought Lagged far behind, or dared but faintly smite?

From Fifty years & Other Poems by Matthews, Brander

Lagged superfluous on a stage in which he played no part beyond that of an amanuensis, and hardly even that.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

And while I spoke, their topsails, friend and foe, Glittered—and there was noise of guns; pale smoke Lagged after, curdling on the sun-fleck'd main.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean