- present participle of straggle.
straggling
Example Sentences
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Survivors wheeled and circled above the wreckage for days, and injured birds straggling ashore were killed by Angelenos looking for a free meal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
With nearly all the straggling mail ballots counted as of Wednesday, turnout in the midterm reached about 64%.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 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
In New York City, a monument production hub less than a century ago — where now only a few straggling businesses remain, including just two full-service companies — this was not good news.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
It wasn’t too long before we were all stretched out, a long and straggling line that got longer and stragglier the farther we went.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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