straggle

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Examples of straggle

  • A little before the appointed time the members straggled in and disposed themselves on the tables and about the walls.

  • This host of course is not normal and shows straggling.

  • Not long afterward, residents straggled back and street life became more active.

  • Is it prepared to acknowledge that this project should go ahead as it is, without straggling appendages?

  • And some of the new towns do look more like straggling villages than towns.

  • The straggling nature of the buildings here would make it a very heavy burden on the local authority.

  • This nation is engaged in a deadly straggle with its competitors and no one can foresee the end.

  • It will also lead and is already leading to a straggle of refugees from the poor countries to the rich.

  • There unexpectedly hove in sight a very large and straggling fleet.

  • It is this combination of an appearance of a straggling village and monotony of building which produces this not altogether satisfactory appearance.

  • Our rearguard straggles out into conditions which are crueller than barbarism.

  • To suggest that that is straggling and ribbon development is going a little far.

  • It is much better that they should do that rather than straggle back in unregulated mass formation.

  • The principal lambing period should be over in six weeks but, with any flock, it will straggle a bit.

  • We cannot afford to let this small island become a mass of straggling villages, one adjacent to the other.

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