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Meanings of straggling in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sprawling"
Examples for "sprawling"
1
Power supplies in sprawling Dar es Salaam have worsened in recent years.
2
Building 3G networks across sprawling India will cost billions of dollars more.
3
Remember those were days before television's sprawling interest and radio's blanket coverage.
4
The play was sprawling, crude and, in my opinion, not very good.
5
Unaffected sections of the sprawling park remained open to visitors, it said.
1
Remember, Jodie Foster only came out in a rambling speech last year.
2
Hilda remained listening in the lobby to the interminable and rambling instruction.
3
His poor broken brain was rambling in the ways of the past.
4
There was something sinister in the unfriendly shadow of the rambling house.
5
She states that in general her mind is both romantic and rambling.
1
It was hard to imagine these straggly bushes bursting with new growth.
2
Sometimes his hair was tightly cropped; at other times, it was straggly.
3
The tumbledown surf club right next door with its straggly red hibiscus.
4
At long filthy dreads matted up with the troll's greasy, straggly beard.
5
They're black and lustrous, but by leaving them straggly they're a blemish.
Usage of straggling in English
1
Our little army reached it after several days' straggling through the countryside.
2
They rode in no particular order, just a straggling column of riders.
3
The watchers pushed back along the side wall in a straggling line.
4
The straggling sail and wreck of the spars hanging over the side.
5
Pill occupied her time in putting her few straggling locks in curl-papers.
6
The clerks were moving out of the doors in long, straggling lines.
7
The hull control rooms were dimly with Earthlight straggling through the windows.
8
The station tonight, straggling late travellers maybe each looking for a companion.
9
In the fading light the straggling wood wore a dreary, forbidding look.
10
Those who did not hurry were straggling groups of men carrying weapons.
11
There was a long straggling queue in front of the half-demolished stack.
12
They were past the market now and straggling back towards Commercial Street.
13
They turned their backs on the straggling town and faced the peaks.
14
The march grew more regular, but the straggling did not altogether cease.
15
As they came straggling toward the pump-house one of them called back:
16
The torrent rolled onward, and at length the hindmost went straggling past.
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Straggling through the time
Straggling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common