Sentence example with the word 'straggled'

straggled

Last update: October 30, 2015


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Here he was overtaken by Murat and Ney, but the French columns had straggled so badly that four whole days elapsed before the emperor was able to concentrate his army for battle and then could only oppose 128,000 men to the Russians' 110,000.   [Please select]

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He kept his face turned from the river and somewhat to the east, and straggled on.   [Please select]

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Some seemed to have straggled away as if they had given up trying to see or hear.   [Please select]

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In two days they began to return, and straggled in at intervals for a week thereafter, for many had gone far.   [Please select]

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Peabody drank again, this time with a friend of Jack's, a man of his own stripe, who straggled into the saloon.   [Please select]

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Allan and Thad headed the procession that soon straggled in couples along the side of the dusty road.   [Please select]

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Tagotu noticed with dismay how thin the crowd was that straggled about the market-place.   [Please select]

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The old house straggled along the road, with addition after addition built on through generations by many men and women.   [Please select]

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A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that straggled over the brown moor.   [Please select]

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I was glad one straggled into the back seats I had battled for, just to demonstrate one's principle of barring out the color-bar.   [Please select]

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They seemed glad to see him as he straggled back so forlornly to them up the platform, and out of the station.   [Please select]

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