laggard

Example Sentences

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Laggard states that lack such restrictions should consider emergency policies to cover desperate people, up to and including temporary state-level eviction moratoriums, until state officials prove they can effectively distribute federal money.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021

Laggard day came, with a dusky sky, obscured by heavy clouds and the rain still pouring.

From The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

This strategy was little to the taste of the Roman populace, who nicknamed Fabius Cunctator, "the Laggard."

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

I am going to write a poem about a Laggard Lover.

From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)

Their son was Jon, father of Erlend the Laggard, the father of Archbishop Egstein.

From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Press, Muriel A.C.