straggler Betydning & definition

Eksempler på straggler

• The first generation studied were partly composed of stragglers from hopper bands and flying swarms.

• His work was to lead the caravan along the correct route, and mark off the paths which stragglers were not to take.

• Correspondingly there are other areas, too, that still or already lie in shadow as outposts or stragglers.

• This is also, probably, a straggler.

• A few fortunate stragglers from this column were picked up in the last stages of exhaustion, their bare feet in ribbons.

• By and large, however, such people are only stragglers.

• He simply lines the heights, retires from vantage point to vantage point, cuts off stragglers and thoroughly enjoys himself.

• If we continue on selective lines we shall go into the 21st century as stragglers with the ideas of the 19th century.