How To Use Straggler In A Sentence
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Wait for the stragglers to catch up.
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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,
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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
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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
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Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
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When a rare disagreement arose, he tried to coax stragglers along or simply found a more acceptable phrasing.
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As they mooched off, one straggler swaggering along behind the others tried to do an oh-so-cool spit onto the grass.
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The bell resounded at its high-pitch scream and last-minute stragglers rushed in.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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No enemy fighters sighted - thank God - because a straggler is a dead duck.
Ray J. Dunphy
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From the shadows of the gingko trees, a pack of tyrannosaurus rex are darting out and running down the stragglers.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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From the shadows of the gingko trees, a pack of tyrannosaurus rex are darting out and running down the stragglers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He unlocked the front door and Anna charged in, dragging another straggler behind her but slamming it --- unceremoniously --- in Bo's face.
BEHINDLINGS
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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
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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.
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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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From the shadows of the gingko trees, a pack of tyrannosaurus rex are darting out and running down the stragglers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tour guide came back for the stragglers who were still taking pictures.
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In this kind of brightness the fishermen come out, trailing their nets in the shallows by the beach, hunting for unwary stragglers.
YELLOW BIRD
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The tour guide came back for the stragglers who were still taking pictures.
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Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
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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.
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Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
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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
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Wait for the stragglers to catch up.
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Most years, shorelarks wintering locally linger here until the end of April, with stragglers to the second week in May.
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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
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We watched the last of the stragglers come in, three hours after the first runner.
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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
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Don't be the straggler the predators pick off, be the hedgehog with the pointy spiny spikes - more effort than you're worth.
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Except for a straggler male who tried to jump on his back.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
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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
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This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground.
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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.
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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
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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
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Stragglers were shot and those that fell down exhausted were clubbed to death or left to die.
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A bird helps the old man locate a large albacore tuna, which is a straggler from a larger school of fish.
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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
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The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen:
Waverley
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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
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Marine Animal Rescue spokesman Peter Wallerstein said Monday the "straggler" is healthy and probably just taking its time to get to Alaska.
Home
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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)
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Ten minutes later, to allow for stragglers, she headed down the main spiral.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
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It's gone midnight and the pubs are disgorging the last few stragglers.
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Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
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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
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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
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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.
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The trumpeter's normal centre of abundance is about and south of Cook Strait, although winter stragglers may reach Doubtless Bay.
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The closest thing to a straggler is the Oakland Raiders, who haven't taken a lineman that high since 2004.
Brownsville Herald :
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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
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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)
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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
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Caine watched as the last few stragglers nursed their drinks.
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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.
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Her expression masked, she nodded toward the remaining stragglers veering toward their cars.
Captured by Moonlight
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Neither of these Premierleague stragglers excelled yesterday, you may be unsurprised to here, but, United laboured less than Aberdeen.
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She liked her life, feared for mine: I was the straggler, the rogue animal, not her.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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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
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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.
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No such luck … I was a math straggler from the get-go.
On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake
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There are still some stragglers awaiting relocation, skulking up there on the top shelf trying to avoid detection.
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Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
