Meanings of straggle town in English

They turned their backs on the straggling town and faced the peaks.

It is a long and straggling town of about 2000 inhabitants.

On the eastern shore loomed a straggling town of considerable proportions.

Emerson was born in Boston, then a straggling town, in 1803.

Then the straggling town with its white adobe houses crouching on the grass.

Two hundred yards away a spur of the jungle ran close to the straggling town.

The office of the incipient oil king was on the main street of the straggling town.

At last we arrived at Krasnoyarsk, a large, straggling town of great importance on the River Yenisei.

After crossing the River Lotembwa we traveled about eight miles, and came to Katema's straggling town (lat.

Mirzapore is a straggling town, said to contain 100,000 inhabitants.

O'Connor walked rapidly and they soon reached the outskirts of the little straggling town without meeting anyone to question them.

Towards evening they came to Inguazhilligee, having passed just before, a very large and pleasant, but straggling town, called Congie.

If a grave here or there appeared along the trail or at the edge of the straggling town, it mattered little.

Fortunately the path out of the straggling town was a twisted one and in a very short space they were hidden from view.

Pretty girls rode bareheaded, with sunburned men in sombreros, just outside the straggling town, between hedges of roses that made boundaries for bungalows.

Brownsville is a straggling town of about 3000 inhabitants; most of its houses are wooden ones, and its streets are long, broad, and straight.