daggers

Example Sentences

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Once the crowd settles down on the weathered docks of Stonington Harbor, the local bishop sprinkles some holy water in the direction of the gathered fishing draggers and lobster boats.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2019

The group that drives the relationship is the draggers.

From Newsweek • Jun. 29, 2010

Most did not even have weapons training, and they looked down on the few SOG commandos who remained out in the field as knuckle draggers, relics of a bygone era.

From Time Magazine Archive

As things now stand, Yeltsin is saddled with what he views as an obstreperous bunch of foot draggers until their terms expire in 1995.

From Time Magazine Archive

“First her mum gets the sickness, and then when draggers take her mum to the Field? And her pa go to watch the spirit?”

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry