straggler

Example Sentences

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Consumer spending data was OK, excluding cars, along with straggler earnings from the likes of FedEx and General Mills, which reported reasonable numbers.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

And if he were to one day find a red straggler with the right surface features to indicate a primordial black hole?

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

“He threatened he would bring home a straggler one day,” she joked.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2023

He picked up the last straggler, a man running down a road with his cat in a cage.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2022

Last of all came a straggler, all skin and bones, hobbling on a twisted foot.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer