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But the stragglers may not be able to straggle much longer: Bans on the chemicals are coming.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Might Rory McIlroy end his nutty straggle through his major-golf desert here?

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022

In the longer races, some competitors would straggle to the finish line well after Heiden had won and departed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

The move comes as lawmakers straggle back to Washington for an abbreviated preelection session, as hopes are dimming for another coronavirus relief bill — or much else.”

From Fox News ● Sep. 8, 2020

“You are expected on board,” said the sergeant to my convict; “they know you are coming. Don’t straggle, my man. Close up here.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Thirty miles south, Old Lighthouse Road straggles to an end in a waterside housing development where air conditioning units sit on raised platforms.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021

Second, he never wore his hair in long blond straggles, like a stoner Messiah; that, however, is the style favored by Moondog, as an accompaniment to his cacophonous shirts and his silver Ugg boots.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019

It straggles, it is too long, but it has some of Bean's brio.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013

His lyrical language sometimes lapses into flowery excess, and occasionally Cosmos' galloping pace straggles to a crawl.

From Time Magazine Archive

I stressed to the assembled press the need for mutual communication and support between the Africans and Afro- Americans whose straggles were interlocked.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The crowd straggled toward City Hall, where Kauffman launched into his speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

As pupils straggled in, the teachers offered a cheery hello or simply ignored them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2023

The Terrapins endured a scoring drought of more than six minutes in the first half, and they straggled into intermission leading 32-28.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2023

Now, day after day, he and the other students straggled into their classroom at 11:30 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

They became widely separated as they straggled up the slope.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

"It was really challenging straggling down the rock faces to get to this shoreline and count all the plastic that was there," she said.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2022

Amelia was straggling in with bleary eyes, asking what was going on and why we were all so awake.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

“Usually, you have to call somebody, somebody might be doing something different, come in straggling from special teams or something,” Morris said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

Now that nearly all the straggling ballots have been counted, it’s worth looking at what really stood out in the totals for Seattle’s key 2021 races.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

When two of them finally came straggling back to the Wall, it had been as wights.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin