Sentence example with the word 'straggler'

straggler

Definition n. someone who strays or falls behind

Last update: September 9, 2015


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That morning's attack on the wagons had been made so hastily that the Frenchmen with the wagons had all been killed; only a little drummer boy had been taken alive, and as he was a straggler he could tell them nothing definite about the troops in that column.   [Please select]

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He caught a glimpse, on the steep, ascending roadway of a handful of naked men running staggeringly, one straggler far behind.   [Please select]

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An equally strong line of cavalry in the rear drove in front of it every straggler or camp follower.   [Please select]

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Many a Spanish straggler was still hull-down astern; and Sidonia had to wait for all to close and form up properly.   [Please select]

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'" The remains must have been those of a solitary and very enterprising straggler."'   [Please select]

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It is a rare straggler on Vancouver Island; it has been taken near Victoria.   [Please select]

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The black-bellied tree-duck is only met with as a straggler north of Chihuahua, Mexico.   [Please select]

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An occasional straggler is killed as far south as San Francisco, but they are a cold country bird.   [Please select]

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Probably Guernsey was mentioned as a locality on account of the female specimen in the Museum, but with this exception I have never heard of its making its appearance in Sark even as a straggler.   [Please select]

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"--As would seem probable from its occasional appearance in nearly every county in England, the Waxwing does occasionally make its appearance in Guernsey as a straggler."   [Please select]

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