straggle

Might Rory McIlroy end his nutty straggle through his major-golf desert here?

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022

In the longer races, some competitors would straggle to the finish line well after Heiden had won and departed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

The emails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 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

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

Juneau still straggles with dingy, narrow streets from the roaring gold-rush times.

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

As pupils straggled in, the teachers offered a cheery hello or simply ignored them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 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

It’s an understandably more upbeat bunch than the group that straggled home from the Maui Invitational having dropped four of five.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2016

For the most part it was a somber group that straggled back to their neglected chores.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

With nearly all the straggling mail ballots counted as of Wednesday, turnout in the midterm reached about 64%.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

The whole thing took 15 minutes, and ended with a police officers shouting at straggling photographers and guests to get out of the street already so a city bus could come through.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

"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

Two of Roose Bolton’s scouts had come straggling back through the Hunter’s Gate to report that Lord Stannis’s advance had slowed to a crawl.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin