straggling

IPA: strˈægʌɫɪŋ

Examples of "straggling" in Sentences

Another reason for much of the straggling was the diet on which the men had to subsist.
The whole remnant of the wretched army now crossed in straggling parties to the landing-place.
Their light brown hair was worn in short, straggling ringlets in front, and twisted up with a comb behind.
Here the memorandum ceased with a long line straggling from the letter y as if the writer had been surprised at his task.
She was dark, like her mother, but her features were irregular, and her hair fell in straggling, dim locks about her face.
In a dingy basement window a crooked sign, in straggling, penciled letters, caught Sophie's eye: "Room to let, a bargain, cheap."
Following the detectives the other members of the party came in straggling order, and it was well after 10 o’clock when the real business of the day was commenced in the top paddock at Kilmany Park, about a mile and a half further on than what is known as the racecourse paddock.
Though "they had a very fine day" and everything is formally perfect "outward circumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality" the banded host of harmony dispersed in straggling sounds: "there was deficiency [...] a languor, a want of spirits, a want of union, which could not be got over" (III. vii, 331-32).