verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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Soon the rest of the girls would straggle in , the mail would arrive and another week would be under way.
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Their last surviving companion straggled in after them; he had found his way alone.
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The patients sit down when he does; then the little nurses arid the residents straggle in .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her hair straggled around her face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A straggling line of women and children on the move with their meager possessions atop their heads.
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And got heavier as they left the small station and straggled down a steep, cinder path.
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His vignettes depict scenes of trapped journalists, straggling soldiers and gruesome battles.
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I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops, stone circles, sacred trees and springs.
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I loved the row of collard greens straggling across the garden.
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One by one the travelers were straggling out of Customs.
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Their last surviving companion straggled in after them; he had found his way alone.
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They had been moving in a group, or trying to: actually, they had straggled widely at times.