Straggled
[strægəld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Straggle
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Examples
- Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Men went, but only kings and nobles straggled back; and that often only after heavy taxation for a ransom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The few of his followers who have returned have straggled hither like this Wilfred of Ivanhoe, beggared and broken men. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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