Meaning of Straggle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An irregular, spread-out group.
2. An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.

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Examples

“Twenty-five hundred hands snapped at a slant to the hats. The admiral strolled onto the field, smoking, followed by a straggle of officers, walking carelessly to symbolize the privileges of rank, but straggling at distances from the admiral strictly regulated by the number of sleeve stripes on each stragger.”

“At Milton the road is blocked by yet another Anzac parade, a straggle of people raw-faced in the cold.”

“Apart from these few rail stations with a duka and a straggle of a few houses there was no town or village. That part of Kenya, mostly acacia bush and, further on, grassy plains with bush along the course of the few rivers, was empty of humanity […]”

“Nevertheless there is a straggle of pungent sense in it, — like the outskirts of lightning, seen in that dismally wet weather, which the Royal Party had.”

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