straggle

How To Use straggle In A Sentence

• Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
• Her expression masked, she nodded toward the remaining stragglers veering toward their cars. Captured by Moonlight
• Edwin, who, with Grimsby, had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitering the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp. The Scottish Chiefs
• One final piece of understated showmanship: when the band came back for the encore, they straggled on in a seemingly random fashion.
• Thea asks why she cut her hair - the straggle has been replaced with a close crop.
• Clutching my book to my chest in feigned terror, I shrunk back in mock fear and straggled out,
• He first appeared at Wimbledon in 1972, winning the junior title, a lanky Swedish youth with a straggle of blond brown hair.
• Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
• Its straggle of brightly-coloured box-like houses is dramatically set between steep stark mountains and a sound strewn, even at the height of midsummer, with huge stately icebergs.
• It's gone midnight and the pubs are disgorging the last few stragglers.