straggle

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 could finish third in Iowa and straggle in here, in which case he’d almost certainly finish third here in as well and then go home,” Scala said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2015

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