straggle

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Other jurisdictions have also been working out how to handle employees who straggle or refuse to follow vaccination mandates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

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

“He could finish third in Iowa and straggle in here, in which case he’d almost certainly finish third here in as well and then go home,” Scala said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2015

A few kids start to straggle back to the building, but most of us just stand there, fascinated.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

His droopy white mustache straggles for existence on a face that frequently crinkles with shrewd, sloe-eyed smiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

I stressed to the assembled press the need for mutual communication and support between the Africans and Afro- Americans whose straggles were interlocked.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

As pupils straggled in, the teachers offered a cheery hello or simply ignored them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2023

Back at Downs Park, a group of container ship tourists straggled onto the shore, looking a bit beleaguered.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2022

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

The baboons straggled out from under the trees in the slanting golden light of late afternoon.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

The youngest, the straggling teenaged Låke, was born off the grid and has no identity, legally speaking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

Campaigns have normally pushed for it, allowing them to lock in votes early and focus their efforts on Election Day to encourage straggling supporters to get to the polls.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023

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

When two of them finally came straggling back to the Wall, it had been as wights.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin