straggle

Example Sentences

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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

Other jurisdictions have also been working out how to handle employees who straggle or refuse to follow vaccination mandates.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2021

He was a night owl, coding way past midnight and up in time to straggle into the office late in the morning.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

The Efrafans usually kept fairly close together in the open and it had not occurred to Campion that other rabbits might straggle more widely.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams