straggling
Example Sentences
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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
“Usually, you have to call somebody, somebody might be doing something different, come in straggling from special teams or something,” Morris said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2022
Old men swing their arms with the vigor of cricket bowlers — not an Olympic sport yet — guiding a straggling journalist to a crosswalk.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021
The writing was large and straggling and ought to have looked, Eleanor thought, as though it had been scribbled by bad boys on a fence.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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