straggle

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

“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

No matter that her brother would straggle back, empty-handed with his gang and taunt later comers the same way.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base.

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

His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops: April 4th, 1984.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

With nearly all the straggling mail ballots counted as of Wednesday, turnout in the midterm reached about 64%.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

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

For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr