Examples of straggling

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

• It began as a straggling hamlet of two-roomed weatherboard cottages.

• To calculate the specific deposition energy, initial energy spread, energy loss straggling, and angular straggling were also taken into account.

• This analytical code gives the projected range and the range straggling of implanted ions as functions of the initial energy of ions for any ion-target combination.

• It is scattered along a trunk road for some 2,240 yards, and there has been no development, apart from straggling frontage development, including a colliery.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• But we must put an end to this straggling, piecemeal destruction of our beautiful villages.

• We know that many parishes are very straggling and a parish might be almost urban in one corner.

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

• I hope that that is an indication of the sort of little community we are discussing, a straggling village along 1·2 miles of road.