straggled

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Examples of straggled

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

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

  • In front of us a curious figure was standing, a little crouched, legs straggled, arms held out from his sides.

  • His troops, poorly trained and dispirited from the rapid changes of command, straggled into action on unfavorable terrain.

  • She the straggled behind the convoy and was abandoned.

  • As a result, the fleet straggled out of the harbour in no particular formation.

  • The huts, he wrote, are of a miserable order and straggled over a long continuous space.

  • The wheat is very late and the huts are straggled over a long continuous space.

  • Judah was so drunk that be had to be lifted from his horse when the rear guard straggled into camp.

  • Instead, he stayed with the pack train and straggled far behind the column.

  • Alonso straggled into fourth, his rear tyres almost entirely bald.

  • At noon a straggled procession was formed of the system's 9 remaining vehicles which filed one by one into the depot which shut its gates without ceremony at 1230.

  • Many men straggled and a number collapsed.

  • All three ships straggled and were sunk.

  • On this rough road through hills and ravines, half of the army's horses died, one-quarter of the soldiers straggled, and all but six artillery pieces were left behind.

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