Straggling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAGGLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• grow, spread, or be laid out in an irregular, untidy way
• (of an irregular group of people) move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front
• an untidy or irregularly arranged mass or group
NOUN:
• the act of straggling
ADJECTIVE:
• wandering from the main group or course
• spreading out in different directions
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to stray
• a. & n. from Straggle, v.

Words related to STRAGGLING

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Words that contain STRAGGLING

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How to use STRAGGLING in a sentence

• Awkward straggling steps, to be sure, but they get over the ground, and that is the most they care for.
• Near the hotel they met straggling groups, strolling in either direction, but half a mile away the promenade was practically deserted.
• This is a large-growing shrub of often 10 feet in height, with wiry, somewhat straggling branches, and remarkable for the wealth of pure-white flowers it produces.
• Rarely in this country do we find this species of greater height than about 8 feet, but it is of bushy growth, though somewhat straggling in appearance.
• The whole plant is usually of weak and straggling growth, with shining leaves.
• Close following the first came several straggling shots, but the rascals fired too high, and we had no casualty.
• Near to the spot which he had chosen for his miserable rest, but totally concealed from it by the thick forest, was the last straggling wigwam of an Indian village.
• We were established in a large straggling building of no attraction whatever except its cubic capacity.
• The town of Hatfield is a quaint, straggling place, with narrow streets and many antique houses.
• The Germans had not broken our line, our one thin, straggling, far-stretched line.
• The retreat from Moscow took place three days later, and they went straggling over the Alps in one long string.
• This is a straggling village near the sea-shore, between Brading and Sandown Fort.
• A straggling bit of uneven lawn in front by no means added to its appearance.
• Time, which had dealt so kindly with Vandon itself, had taken the straggling village in hand too.
• He had pushed back the paper cap he wore from his forehead, which was deeply furrowed, and shaded by a few straggling tufts of gray hair.
• Summers came and went, but only a few straggling blooms made their way above the mass of weeds.
• A few straggling beams still fell on the field clear of trees.
• The western half of the island, from Clydesdale southwards, resisted much longer, and, in spite of its long and straggling frontier, held together for more than a century.
• Prune off also all superfluous, or straggling branches.
• The sun came straggling in through cracks in the shutters in the home of Mr.
• I was disappointed on seeing Fort Worth, a straggling village on the Trinity River, and, merely halting to feed my mount, passed on.
• Newest of the new houses that seemed to have accidentally formed its single, straggling street was the residence of the Rev.
• The sun was beginning to sink beyond Baxter peak as they came in view of the little straggling town, clinging hard to the earth as it had through so many years of oblivion.
• There were straggling shops and full-blazing rows of shops.
• Ellsworthy had never yet called on any of the people who lived in the straggling village of Rosebury.
• The cheer went back along the straggling line for old Grandmother Dexter, standing there in her front door between the lilacs.
• When they came to the first buildings of the straggling town she waved her hand gaily, swung off into a side street, and he rode on to overtake Alan and Helen.

Similar words containing STRAGGL without suffix ing

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