Thesaurus / straggle
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Survivors with minor injuries straggled out with blood splattered on their clothes.
ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS MOSQUE BLAST IN KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN, THAT KILLED NEARLY 50, INJURED DOZENSSUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, ELLEN FRANCISOCTOBER 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe humpbacks would slap their tails to keep the prey inside that sphere, and pick off the straggling fish nearer to the outside.
A RARE HUMPBACK WHALE ‘MEGAPOD’ WAS SPOTTED SNACKING OFF THE AUSTRALIAN COASTHANNAH SEOSEPTEMBER 14, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEBetter to straggle along on Zoom, seeing one another’s faces, than mask up for eight hours or more.
REQUIRE THE VACCINE. IT’S TIME TO STOP CODDLING THE RECKLESS.RUTH MARCUSJULY 30, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt was plain that the Indians were dogging our steps day and night, and the men were warned not to straggle.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERThe 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.
A FRONTIER MYSTERYBERTRAM MITFORDThe agile and powerful Zulu, however, was half up in a moment, and the straggle became a hand-to-hand one.
THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORDHe could either possess his soul in patience until the mounted contingent began to straggle back, or risk another rock-fall.
THE TERMS OF SURRENDERLOUIS TRACYSchwerin has no news whatever; only that the Enemy is far off, hanging in long thin straggle from Olmutz westward.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEEvery little while other sweat-streaked, motley-dressed homeseekers would straggle up to this end of the long trail.
OX-TEAM DAYS ON THE OREGON TRAILEZRA MEEKERWORDS RELATED TO STRAGGLE
- bedog
- bring up the rear
- chase
- dally
- dangle
- dawdle
- delay
- dog
- drag
- draggle
- draw
- droop
- drop back
- extend
- fall back
- fall behind
- falter
- flag
- follow a scent
- halt
- hang
- hang back
- hang down
- haul
- hunt
- lag
- linger
- loiter
- nose out
- plod
- poke
- poke along
- procrastinate
- pull
- pursue
- shadow
- shag
- spook
- spoor
- stalk
- straggle
- stream
- string along
- tag along
- tail
- take out after
- tarry
- tow
- trace
- track
- traipse
- trudge
- aberrate
- amble
- circumambulate
- circumlocute
- circumnutate
- cruise
- deviate
- divagate
- diverge
- drift
- float
- follow one's nose
- gad
- gallivant
- globetrot
- hike
- hopscotch
- jaunt
- maunder
- meander
- peregrinate
- ramble
- range
- roam
- roll
- rove
- saunter
- straggle
- stray
- stroll
- take to the road
- trail
- traipse
- tramp
- trek
- vagabond
- walk the tracks
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