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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of straggle.

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Examples

  • Page after listless page straggles past filled with nothing but summaries of the movies Kael saw and what she thought of them.

    What She Found in the Dark Lee Sandlin 2011

  • I could imagine his hatchet face, the straggles of beard around his pursed lips, the anger buried behind his eyes.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • I could imagine his hatchet face, the straggles of beard around his pursed lips, the anger buried behind his eyes.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • “What can I get you?” said the waitress, a thin, tired-looking woman with a few straggles of dyed-blond hair in her eyes.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

  • The bald head, thrown back, trailed gray, wispy straggles of hair.

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  • The land had been so cut up by little farms that the only woods left were clumps and straggles.

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  • A multicoloured crocodile of school children clutching balloons on strings and singing a patriotic-sounding song issues from the school and straggles past us on an outing to the grimy old Greek Orthodox church, onion-domed and now dilapidated.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The bald head, thrown back, trailed gray, wispy straggles of hair.

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  • A multicoloured crocodile of school children clutching balloons on strings and singing a patriotic-sounding song issues from the school and straggles past us on an outing to the grimy old Greek Orthodox church, onion-domed and now dilapidated.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The land had been so cut up by little farms that the only woods left were clumps and straggles.

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

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