Sentence example with the word 'straggling'

straggling

aimless, discursive, drawn, footloose and fancy-free, inchoate, nomad, pulled, spasmodic, strown, unclassified, vagabond

Definition adj. spreading out in different directions

Last update: August 2, 2015


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As Baldwin had secured the supremacy of the lay power in Jerusalem, so he extended into a compact kingdom the poor and straggling territories to which he had succeeded.   [Please select]

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They are merely straggling.   [Please select]

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At some distance they saw Cassim's mules straggling about the rock, with great chests on their backs.   [Please select]

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It was a straggling, thatched, squalid-looking cluster of huts, surrounded by a mud wall with high, arched gates.   [Please select]

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The Germans had not broken our line, our one thin, straggling, far-stretched line.   [Please select]

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"These beggars," a straggling line of them, resumed their loads uncomplainingly.   [Please select]

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Clear of Ochori by one day's march, the party reached the first straggling advance guard of the Big Forest.   [Please select]

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