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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

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

He was a night owl, coding way past midnight and up in time to straggle into the office late in the morning.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

The second film focused upon the Chinese people’s support for the Afro-American straggle.

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

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 lyrical language sometimes lapses into flowery excess, and occasionally Cosmos' galloping pace straggles to a crawl.

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

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 families of the defendants straggled out the front door of the courthouse, some holding up their forearms to shield their faces from the cameras.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2017

A few locals straggled nearby, pretending to shop while eavesdropping.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Some straggling celebrations were expected to continue Sunday night but would not create the same amount of pollution they did on the Fourth, Ciliberti said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

But within the blanket of green are several brown patches — timber cuts — dotted with skinny, straggling trees.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 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

A few wagons rolled sluggishly among the few straggling customers.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss