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.
They straggled across the green, all three generations of them, bellowing at each other as if they were at least half a mile apart, rather than the two paces that actually separated them.
It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy.
Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
They straggled across the green, all three generations of them, bellowing at each other as if they were at least half a mile apart, rather than the two paces that actually separated them.
Johnny and Harry straggled along, trying to keep up with Hugh's furious pace on the walk home.
Ten minutes later, to allow for stragglers, she headed down the main spiral. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say. Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
The crowds that gathered at the top of the Royal Mile, and then straggled out, down towards Holyrood, had come for the bands and the performers, but not noticeably to applaud the process they were meant to be celebrating.
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.
Seven years ago, Margaret and Iain bought a straggle of tumbledown farm buildings on a south-facing hillside at Glecknabae in the north of the island.
Before we review our final round of polling forecasts based on whatever final polls straggle in this morning, let's take a few minutes to ponder that question a little more carefully. Could The Polls In Election 2010 Be Wrong?
Armed with 18th century maps he showed me the straggle of ruined cottages once occupied by poor country folk who worked for a pittance on local farms.
Marine Animal Rescue spokesman Peter Wallerstein said Monday the "straggler" is healthy and probably just taking its time to get to Alaska. Home
Unpainted wooden buildings straggle along the main road out of town.
Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand. The Aeneid of Virgil
The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen: Waverley
At this rate, it has been calculated that our passenger-pigeon might go to Europe in three days; indeed, a straggler is said to have been actually shot in Scotland. Rural Hours
A bird helps the old man locate a large albacore tuna, which is a straggler from a larger school of fish.
Stragglers were shot and those that fell down exhausted were clubbed to death or left to die.
Edwin, who with Grimsby had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitring the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp. The Scottish Chiefs
The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms. Hunger
`We're coming," Hilary called and then said to him, `Let's straggle behind. FAIRYLAND
Worth visiting amongst a plethora of architectural gems are the palace, the tollbooth and the abbey but most enjoyable of all, are the little houses, randomly set against each other in an untidy straggle up the winding lanes.
`We're coming," Hilary called and then said to him, `Let's straggle behind. FAIRYLAND
Hollander and German stragglers who were loafing round about, although he seemed to entertain an irradicable prejudice against the Dutch and My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
Around the pinnacles, lionfish and coral groupers lay ready to apprehend stragglers from the shoals of sweepers, while yellow-mouthed moray eels poked their heads from gaps in the coral as I passed.
This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground.
He is most interested in moving me along so he can close the temple and go out to seek the next set of visitors; much more motivated to sell a few more tickets to the straggle of foreign tourists who may come through later.
By these, Bernadotte was instructed to close with the IIIrd Corps at Naumburg, Ney to move on Roda and the remainder to stop in their present locations, there to rest, round up stragglers and reprovision. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
a straggle of outbuildings
She just kept walking, one canvas-clad foot in front of the other, looking sideways at the sunlit ripple of water, gleaming Lincoln memorial in front, straggle of Canada geese strewn on the grass, and then down at Suraiya's feet, clad sensibly today in only half-inch heels, in special consideration of their lunch-time walk on the Mall. For the Sake of the Boy
The children were beginning to straggle in from the playground.
Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
There are still some stragglers awaiting relocation, skulking up there on the top shelf trying to avoid detection.
A small girl kept her distance and looked on from beneath the unkempt fringe of a straggle of ravenesque hair.
As I have gone around York as a resident I have noticed school teachers allowing children to straggle across pavements and even try to cross busy roads without using the main crossings.
His beard straggles because he hasn't shaven for a week.
No such luck … I was a math straggler from the get-go. On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake
Turning up late for the summer-solstice party at Stonehenge in 2001, he found the only stragglers left were folksy types in horse-drawn wagons.
The epicentre of Kerala's spice trade is the dusty straggle of rickety warehouses and open-fronted shops known as Jewtown.
Entries might be traditional accounts of the day's hiking, messages to stragglers behind heckling them to catch up, introspective omphaloskepsis, cryptic musings of no obvious relevance to anything on the trail, or even entirely different things. Planet Mozilla
Too suddenly over the park came evening to tinge a straggle of clouds and bring fresh intensities to the still green trees.
His grey hair hangs to his shoulders; his little goatee beard straggles around his chin.
The quiet guitarist had twinkly green eyes and a mop of untidy, sand-coloured curls that fell across his forehead and straggled engagingly over the tops of his ears.
She liked her life, feared for mine: I was the straggler, the rogue animal, not her. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Neither of these Premierleague stragglers excelled yesterday, you may be unsurprised to here, but, United laboured less than Aberdeen.
The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen: “Methinks St. Clere, so distinguished for service in war, should have been more forward in the chase.” Waverley
After the recessional Croft waited until the exodus had abated, nodded silently to her ladyship as she passed down the aisle, and followed the stragglers out.
Even as the fort took shape they attacked army and emigrant trains, stole livestock, and killed careless travelers who straggled too far from large groups.
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.
I've already seen straggles of protestors winding past my hotel, which isn't even close, so it will be interesting to see what the numbers are like - or what the police are like.
Straws of pale hair stick out in odd directions and clots of old blood are trapped in the straggles of beard around his mouth.
The ladies were left to straggle after them, a varied procession up the trail.
His stovepipe had been suspended from a hook on the wall; only a few greying wisps of hair straggled over his desert-like scalp. ANTI-ICE
Caine watched as the last few stragglers nursed their drinks.
Bush had confidently predicted that the Iraqi "troops will straggle home with no armor, beaten up, 50,000," but they were more numerous than that, and they had extricated lots of armor. Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II
Healthy slabs of reverb helped single notes resonate and the technological trick of Hunter occasionally sampling her own vocals to create a loop added a bit of spookiness - and surely confused the handful of curious stragglers and bargain-hunting tourists that often make up the audience for the daily Millennium Stage shows. In concert: Lower Dens at Millennium Stage
The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say. Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
He brought us yoghourt in earthenware bowls -- extremely cool and good it was; and after we had done I saw him carry down a huge mess more of it to the house below us, where many of the stragglers we had brought along were quartered by Kagig's order. The Eye of Zeitoon
Knowing the ford well, and that it is shallow, with a firm bottom, they ride boldly on; their followers straggled out behind, these innocent of the foul conspiracy being hatched so near; still keeping up their rollicky mirth, and flinging about _jeux d'esprit_ as the spray drops are tossed from the fetlocks of their wading horses. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
The closest thing to a straggler is the Oakland Raiders, who haven't taken a lineman that high since 2004. Brownsville Herald :
The trumpeter's normal centre of abundance is about and south of Cook Strait, although winter stragglers may reach Doubtless Bay.
Sailors straggle back from their nights out on the town Archive 2009-04-01
So after waiting for the stragglers, those conductors stuck with either the less agile or newer drivers who hadn't yet perfected the skills necessary to reattach their lines so that they would actually stay there, we were off.
Having already satisfied myself as to the several modes in which the four others attained felicity, I next set my mind at work to discover what enjoyments were peculiar to the old "straggler," as the people of the country would have termed the wandering mendicant and prophet. Twice Told Tales
Passing through Nockcliffe plantation, a half-mile of woodland that straggled along the steep sides of a clough, a drop of rain fell between the branches and coursed down her cheek -- a cheek fevered from want of tears, and flaming with a sense of shame. Lancashire Idylls (1898)
We asked some stragglers about it, and they said everybody went to the show looking very innocent; and laid low and kept dark till the poor old king was in the middle of his cavortings on the stage; then somebody give a signal, and the house rose up and went for them. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
After just over an hour of paddling, we straggled onto a beach called Santa Barbara, our first night's campsite.
He unlocked the front door and Anna charged in, dragging another straggler behind her but slamming it --- unceremoniously --- in Bo's face. BEHINDLINGS
From the shadows of the gingko trees, a pack of tyrannosaurus rex are darting out and running down the stragglers. Times, Sunday Times
Behind it Tiberius in a travelling-cloak, his hands unringed, marched meditating on the curiosities of life, while to the rear there straggled a troop of dancing satyrs, led by a mime dressed in resemblance of Augustus, whose defects he caricatured, whose vices he parodied and on whom the surging crowd closed in. Imperial Purple
Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen, 'Methinks Waverley — Volume 1
From the shadows of the gingko trees, a pack of tyrannosaurus rex are darting out and running down the stragglers. Times, Sunday Times
Of the 500,000 men who marched into Russia in June anticipating an easy victory, 20,000 straggled to safety six months later.
By the time we straggle into Bimbila, Schroeder has ridden 20 miles on a bumpy dirt track without a saddle, not complaining once.
No enemy fighters sighted - thank God - because a straggler is a dead duck. Ray J. Dunphy
My wet hair is plastered to my head, a bright, reddish, waterlogged mass clouding my head in wet straggles.
In 1979 Chhomya was one of thousands of orphans who straggled back to Phnom Penh.
Beyond the wadi, the land sloped up with an ochre ribbon of a road snaking to a distant straggle of trees, a few flat-roofed houses, and into bare mauve mountains holding up a sky still hazed with dust.
It was a straggle of houses along the main road to Maddingleigh. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen, ` ` Methinks The Waverley
He wanted to resume the retreat on the 12th, but destroying supplies and equipment took too much time, and the wounded continued to straggle into camp. George Washington’s First War
The black-bellied plover or beetlehead, which occurred along the Atlantic seaboard in great numbers years ago, is now seen only as a straggler. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
Set high on the Weald with views towards Romney Marsh, the 90-acre property was a rather neglected spread with a pretty tile-hung house, a straggle of outbuildings and no garden to speak of.
We flew in from Santiago de Chile as the pink streaks of sunset straggled across the sky.
Wait for the stragglers to catch up.
Then he made the circuit of the field, to assure himself that all was right, and that there were no stragglers lying frozen in corners, or turned _avel_ [6] in the lirks of the knowes. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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.
The bell resounded at its high-pitch scream and last-minute stragglers rushed in.
Greasy wisps of hair straggled across the girl's face and her skinny fingers were smudged black.
Beyond the more frequented quarters of the town, they found broad, unkempt, and as yet unlevelled avenues and streets, where modest houses straggled, perched on high banks with an air of having found themselves there quite by accident. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
He said that 200 people had crowded into a tiny makeshift ticket office in the association's downtown Shanghai office when sales began, but only a handful of customers straggled in on Monday morning.
a straggle of followers
Lia ran a hand through her hair and leaned forward, allowing a few wispy tendrils to straggle free from her messy ponytail.
As they mooched off, one straggler swaggering along behind the others tried to do an oh-so-cool spit onto the grass.
When a rare disagreement arose, he tried to coax stragglers along or simply found a more acceptable phrasing.
Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
Most likely Hilton was rushing to a fixed-gear freestyle "sesh" where literally hundreds of points were on offer and she hoped to snag a few stragglers in the bike lane on the way, but sadly for her she was stopped before she could get there. The More Things Change: The Indignity of Protesting by Bicycle
He returns to the place of his childhood holidays on the Gold Coast to find that the straggle of fibro cottages has given way to rows of anonymous high-rise apartments.
He called Estelle back to him as soon as they came upon any stragglers from the _fête_, and took her hand in a way that neither his mother nor the child ventured to resist. Chatterbox, 1906
I know that a number of prisoners fell into the enemy's hands who did not belong to my command: such as cavalrymen on details to get fresh horses, soldiers on leave of absence, conscripts on special details, citizens not in the service, men employed in getting supplies for the departments, and stragglers and deserters from other commands. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
A few stragglers return from lunch, and the April afternoon clouds are too threatening to tempt anyone to sneak out for an early tee time.
She wore a false front, which she called a topknot, the small, crimped, deep-brown mohair curls of which were bound about her forehead with a bit of black velvet ribbon, while gray hairs straggled from underneath to make the patent sham more transparent still; and over her topknot she wore a rusty black cap that enclosed the keen monkeyish face like a ruff. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
For the next two hours we straggled across this damp desert.
Except for a straggler male who tried to jump on his back. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
We passed through a straggle of houses with the smell of oil from olive presses. SKORPION'S DEATH
So, unless it straggles back again and Father gets rid of his incubus, which isn't at all likely, the eldest daughter of the noble house of Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy.
Don't be the straggler the predators pick off, be the hedgehog with the pointy spiny spikes - more effort than you're worth.
The sugar train to Matanzas started with a trundle and a high moan from the horn, pulling away from the suburbs of Havana with stateliness rather than speed, pursued by stragglers who hopped aboard like hobos catching a freight. The 12:39 to Matanzas
Her bedraggled black hair falls in soggy straggles around her face and shoulders.
We watched the last of the stragglers come in, three hours after the first runner.
On the map the village appears to be nothing more than a straggle of houses but actually includes a large Victorian school, antique shop and butcher.
The ranks of his men closed in orderly march and followed him, and the bruised and draggled survivors of Gwion's unblessed army took up their dead and straggled after, leaving the trampled and bloodied beach clear of all but the drovers and their cattle, and Cadwaladr alone, aloof from all men, stalking in a black, forbidding cloud of disgust and humiliation after his brother. His Disposition
Importantly, any captured star would form a highly elliptical orbit, whose periastron encounters would strip the outer layers of both stars, leaving their hotter cores exposed – the blue stragglers we see. Blue Stragglers Can Be Either Vampires or Stellar Bad-Boys | Universe Today
For the village of Shoxford runs up on the rise, and straggles away from its burial-place, as a child from his school goes mitching. Erema
Most years, shorelarks wintering locally linger here until the end of April, with stragglers to the second week in May.
Older prose fictions often have titles which straggle, unthriftily, by mentioning so many unknowns that we forget all of them as we plod down their title-pages.
By that time, she had more then lost a few straggles of hair from trying to untie the stubborn curls.
Wait for the stragglers to catch up.
Together, the results confirm suspicions that the blue stragglers emerged from collisions and mass transfers, says astronomer Alison Sills of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
They can watch us sitting in the draught at the door of the hall with a hat collecting pound coins as villagers straggle in to watch the latest show.
As the group straggled in, curious as to why they were contacted, they saw that Ken and Amy were already sitting at the table.
This means that when some hounds are dragging or have found, the rest either never get to them or run in straggled batches.
Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
We are given a wonderful account of visits to Attu, the desolate, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands - and holy grail of birders - to see smews, pochards, and stragglers blowing in from Siberia.
By the time he left school, workers in Clydebank straggled rather than streamed.
Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
Two years later in the crisis of October 1993, it took only a few tank shells to flush a straggle of defiant Supreme Soviet deputies out of the White House. The Return
The tour guide came back for the stragglers who were still taking pictures.
Yet, Katherine noticed with a smile, his hair still straggled down past his ears.
We passed through a straggle of houses with the smell of oil from olive presses. SKORPION'S DEATH
Over the next few minutes three more students straggled in.
In this kind of brightness the fishermen come out, trailing their nets in the shallows by the beach, hunting for unwary stragglers. YELLOW BIRD
The tour guide came back for the stragglers who were still taking pictures.
From the shadows of the gingko trees, a pack of tyrannosaurus rex are darting out and running down the stragglers. Times, Sunday Times
It was a straggle of houses along the main road to Maddingleigh. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
The conch shell lets out a last bellowing call and warns any remaining straggler that the ceremony is about to begin. Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony

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