straggle

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

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

He’s glad tourists are scarcer too, even though they still straggle past on their way north to self-quarantines and social distancing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2020

The second film focused upon the Chinese people’s support for the Afro-American straggle.

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

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

At the tenth Station, paralleling the moment when Christ is stripped of his clothes, a band of ragged Brazilian peasants straggles onto one end of the field.

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

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

The families of the defendants straggled out the front door of the courthouse, some holding up their forearms to shield their faces from the cameras.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2017

On the last leg back to Cange, I straggled up out of another ravine and as usual found Farmer waiting for me.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

This time around he follows straggling young people in Peru, Taiwan, and Sri Lanka, first separately until the geographical distance between them collapses and their timelines overlap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

But within the blanket of green are several brown patches — timber cuts — dotted with skinny, straggling trees.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

"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

The crow resembled more a humpy ball with straggling tail feathers, feathers as wispy and disordered as Gwystyl’s cobwebby hair.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander