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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

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 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

Few plants are as useless, ugly and loathsome as the creeping puncture weed that straggles haphazardly across most of the western U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You question my talents? A half-dead mortal straggles into my swamp and questions my talents?”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

Back at Downs Park, a group of container ship tourists straggled onto the shore, looking a bit beleaguered.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2022

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

There was the feeling of impersonal plenty when I saw a boll of cotton whose cup had spilt over and straggled its white fleece toward the earth.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

Celebrate Maryland native Frances Tiafoe, who barged into Friday’s semifinals and jumped to the front of the straggling line of candidates to end American men’s nearly 19-year drought in Grand Slam singles events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

Some of the financial disparities reflect straggling primary fields that have yet to be narrowed or candidates who only decided recently to enter their races.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

In one corner stood a wide loom with a good many of the threads straggling down.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander