straggler
IPA: strˈægɫɝ
noun
- A person who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
- One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
- One who roams without any settled direction.
- A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
- A roving vagabond.
- Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
- Something that stands alone or by itself.
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Examples of "straggler" in Sentences
- I happened to come across a lone straggler.
- That section seems like a straggler right now.
- A fourth straggler regained the convoy on the 15th.
- No such luck … I was a math straggler from the get-go.
- Except for a straggler male who tried to jump on his back.
- Extinct by 1800 or may have been straggler of extant species.
- This made intermarriage with Tuscarora stragglers a possibility.
- I picked up only a straggler from the albacore that were feeding.
- A child or woman, alone, would appear to them as a weak straggler.
- Arathorn then leads the remaining Rangers in pursuit of the stragglers.
- Instead, Linois swung in behind the convoy, hoping to cut off a straggler.
- No enemy fighters sighted - thank God - because a straggler is a dead duck.
- That removes a straggler sentence, helps to cite more about the music video.
- The closest thing to a straggler is the Oakland Raiders, who haven't taken a lineman that high since 2004.
- Marine Animal Rescue spokesman Peter Wallerstein said Monday the "straggler" is healthy and probably just taking its time to get to Alaska.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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