straggling
Example Sentences
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Straggling members of a ruptured pack “don’t hunt deer as effectively,” he says.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2021
Straggling behind it comes an eclectic mix of scientists, ranging from students with body piercings to tweed-jacketed professors.
From Nature • Aug. 1, 2012
Straggling flocks of sheep stumbled and bobbed along the canyons toward shearing corrals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Straggling behind the others as usual was Wingtip’s flock.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
Straggling, catching up with one another, keeping more or less together, they had wandered over half a mile down the fields, always following the course of the brook.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing straggling
The Things They Carried
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Dubliners
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