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Meanings of straggle in English

Catalan
marxar
Spanish
salir

Wander from a direct or straight course.

        marxar
        Catalan
        estendre's

        To spread out in a disorderly fashion.

              estendre's
              Usage of straggle in English
              1
              As he went down, stone dykes began to straggle up the hill.
              Carmen's Messenger
              2
              No one was disposed to straggle and go back to Company Q.
              "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
              3
              They've had experience with animals foolish enough to straggle off in here.
              The Plunderer
              4
              They never straggle and they're just about the best marchers we have.
              The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
              5
              They let the boyfriend straggle behind, listening to his silent, unfamiliar music.
              Flesh and blood
              6
              Don't let them straggle, for I want to know where they are.
              Love under Fire
              7
              Soon they met a straggle of people coming the other way.
              Strata
              8
              The city comes to life as shops open and late-night revellers straggle home.
              The Guardian
              9
              No hospital physician would have pictured the straggle in such colors.
              Over the Teacups
              10
              A straggle of beard on the chin emphasised its spade-like quality.
              Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
              11
              The trappers who straggle over the deserts from Texas our horsemen will lasso.
              The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
              12
              The men, tired and queasy after their night of revels, straggle behind us.
              Waiting for the Barbarians
              13
              A few horses hauling big gun carriages straggle through the dust.
              The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
              14
              These watched the flanks, and would not permit any to straggle.
              The Ontario Readers: Third Book
              15
              But every movement has its crowd of camp followers, who straggle and scatter.
              The Stark Munro Letters / Being series of twelve letters written...
              16
              But like everyone in town, this straggle-bearded wrack-gatherer knew Tom Morris.
              Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
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