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straggler

[ US /ˈstɹæɡɫɝ/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈæɡlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who strays or falls behind

How To Use straggler In A Sentence

  • Her expression masked, she nodded toward the remaining stragglers veering toward their cars. Captured by Moonlight
  • Edwin, who, with Grimsby, had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitering the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp. The Scottish Chiefs
  • Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
  • It's gone midnight and the pubs are disgorging the last few stragglers.
  • Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
  • Ten minutes later, to allow for stragglers, she headed down the main spiral. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say. Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
  • Marine Animal Rescue spokesman Peter Wallerstein said Monday the "straggler" is healthy and probably just taking its time to get to Alaska. Home
  • Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen: Waverley
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