straggling in English

verb
1
move along slowly, typically in a small irregular group, so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
half the men were already straggling back into the building

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1. Vines are straggling over the fences.

2. Branches straggling out quite far.

3. Henry picked up two straggling Italian sergeants.

4. Her hair was straggling over her eyes.

5. They came straggling up the cliff road.

6. They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now.

7. Except the straggling green which hides the wood.

8. We were visiting a small , thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt.

9. A few young children are straggling along behind their parents.

10. He looked terrible , rather bald with a straggling beard.

11. One by one the travelers were straggling out of Customs.

12. His vignettes depict scenes of trapped journalists, straggling soldiers and gruesome battles.

13. He looked terrible, any age, rather bald with a straggling beard.

14. His vignettes depict scenes of trapped journalists[http://Sentencedict.com], straggling soldiers and gruesome battles.

15. The Vine - straggling and green - shaded garden is ideal for cocktail parties, lawn wedding, fashion events.

16. I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.

17. 30 We were visiting a small , thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt.

18. The meanders of a prattling brook, were shaded with straggling willows and alder trees.

19. Some straggling carts and coaches rumbling by, first broke the charm, then others came.

20. So they go out in a loose procession something after the manner of a straggling funeral.

21. The place consisted of straggling unmade road which was lined on either side by small houses.

22. Straggling, beaten columns of troops marched without equipment into the town and out along the main road to Kiev.

23. This masculinity was emphasised by her uncompromising coiffure, her grey hair drawn tightly back and screwed into a straggling bun.

24. A straggling line of women and children on the move with their meager possessions atop their heads.

25. The passengers came straggling back shedding overcoats and saying it was cold outside, and again the dining car filled up.

26. The deformation quantity corresponding to the rolling press getting good shape can be got by straggling press amount and iterative computation.

27. Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth, they now survive in a few straggling colonies.

28. Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.

29. 29 Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.

30. The main meiotic chromosomal aberration of PMC are multipolar division, loose pairing, inversion, tetravalent, interlocking chromosome, unequal segregation, straggling chromosome, bridge and laggards.

31. Chickweed is a common annual weed that appears uninvited all across North America. Featuring white, star-shaped flowers, Chickweed also sports pairs of green leaves and straggling stems