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straggling

adjective as in rambling

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Example Sentences

I was totally unprepared and only got one arm around, the other was left straggling and I accidentally cupped his balls.

The girl was alone, lying with her head upon the table, and her hair straggling over it.

They are straggling, and have wide and apparently deep channels between them.

By and by, a straggling birch bluff rose blackly across their way, but nobody swung wide.

The edge of the reef off the latter island is not well defined, for we passed several straggling rocks.

Around us rose the broken, straggling walls, bare and bleak, without a shred of ivy or wall-flower to hide their grim nakedness.

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On this page you'll find 113 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to straggling, such as: lean, less, middling, minor, minority, and minute.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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