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But the stragglers may not be able to straggle much longer: Bans on the chemicals are coming.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Might Rory McIlroy end his nutty straggle through his major-golf desert here?

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022

In the longer races, some competitors would straggle to the finish line well after Heiden had won and departed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

The move comes as lawmakers straggle back to Washington for an abbreviated preelection session, as hopes are dimming for another coronavirus relief bill — or much else.”

From Fox News ● Sep. 8, 2020

I straggle behind the film crew and the bodyguards, feeling their presence to be a violation of my beloved woods.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Thirty miles south, Old Lighthouse Road straggles to an end in a waterside housing development where air conditioning units sit on raised platforms.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021

Second, he never wore his hair in long blond straggles, like a stoner Messiah; that, however, is the style favored by Moondog, as an accompaniment to his cacophonous shirts and his silver Ugg boots.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019

It straggles, it is too long, but it has some of Bean's brio.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013

The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You question my talents? A half-dead mortal straggles into my swamp and questions my talents?”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The crowd straggled toward City Hall, where Kauffman launched into his speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

The Terrapins endured a scoring drought of more than six minutes in the first half, and they straggled into intermission leading 32-28.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2023

Now, day after day, he and the other students straggled into their classroom at 11:30 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, set the tone as lawmakers straggled back to Washington from a weekend extended by their political party retreats.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2017

The faint tail of knighthood straggled in by twos and threes, then one at a time, then with intervals of days between the solitary riders.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

With nearly all the straggling mail ballots counted as of Wednesday, turnout in the midterm reached about 64%.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

The whole thing took 15 minutes, and ended with a police officers shouting at straggling photographers and guests to get out of the street already so a city bus could come through.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

"It was really challenging straggling down the rock faces to get to this shoreline and count all the plastic that was there," she said.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2022

Some of the financial disparities reflect straggling primary fields that have yet to be narrowed or candidates who only decided recently to enter their races.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

She sits, bent over, her knees pulled up, her crossed arms on her knees, her head in her arms, her face hidden, her long hair straggling down her back.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman