straggle

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

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022

The emails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 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’s glad tourists are scarcer too, even though they still straggle past on their way north to self-quarantines and social distancing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2020

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

At the tenth Station, paralleling the moment when Christ is stripped of his clothes, a band of ragged Brazilian peasants straggles onto one end of the field.

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

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 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

We opened the play in Florida, on Inauguration Day, and people just straggled into the theater.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2017

As the jury members straggled in, they were not clowning around or tap-dancing on the stage as jurors usually did.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Survivors wheeled and circled above the wreckage for days, and injured birds straggling ashore were killed by Angelenos looking for a free meal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

"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

Amelia was straggling in with bleary eyes, asking what was going on and why we were all so awake.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

I take my time to make sure I have no hairs straggling from my braid.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera