straggle

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Survivors with minor injuries straggled out with blood splattered on their clothes.

The humpbacks would slap their tails to keep the prey inside that sphere, and pick off the straggling fish nearer to the outside.

Better to straggle along on Zoom, seeing one another’s faces, than mask up for eight hours or more.

It was plain that the Indians were dogging our steps day and night, and the men were warned not to straggle.

The Rebel army had made slower marches, and the soldiers could not straggle; they were in an enemy's country.

THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

Soon groups of natives began to straggle up, not in regular formation this time.

The agile and powerful Zulu, however, was half up in a moment, and the straggle became a hand-to-hand one.

He could either possess his soul in patience until the mounted contingent began to straggle back, or risk another rock-fall.

Schwerin has no news whatever; only that the Enemy is far off, hanging in long thin straggle from Olmutz westward.

Every little while other sweat-streaked, motley-dressed homeseekers would straggle up to this end of the long trail.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985