to move or spread untidily and in small numbers or amounts: I put my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.

5 сент. 2024 г. · As the group approached, the shelter's glass doors swung open and the migrants straggled through, some carrying kids who were too young to walk.

They came straggling up the cliff road. The other boys straggled away, some to their work in the kitchen, some to the great hall.

Examples of straggle · A little before the appointed time the members straggled in and disposed themselves on the tables and about the walls. · This host of ...

to walk slowly into or from a place in a way that is not continuous or organized. The children straggled in from outside. People straggled off the train.

To straggle is to wander in an indirect, meandering way. Lions often go for the small antelopes that straggle behind the herd.

If a small quantity of things straggle over an area, they cover it in an uneven or untidy way. Her grey hair straggled ...

to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals: The trees straggle over the countryside. to lag behind others.

to grow, spread, or move in a messy way in different directions. Her hair was straggling over her eyes. The town straggled to an end and the fields began.