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词汇 straggled
释义 straggled
past simple and past participle ofstraggle
straggle
verb[ Iusually+ adv/prep ]
uk /ˈstræɡ.əl/ us /ˈstræɡ.əl/
to move or spread untidily and in small numbers or amounts: 四散,散落
I put my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.我把头发扎了起来,因为我不喜欢披散在背上。
A year after the hurricane, tourists are beginning to straggle (= come in small numbers) back to the region.飓风过去一年之后,又开始有游客零星地来到这个地区。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
blunder
bumble
dodder
dodderer
doddery
favour
inflexibly
limp
lollop
lumber
lumpily
lurch
reel
squeeze
toddle
toil
totter
tottering
totteringly
tumble

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Spreading and scattering
Slow and moving slowly

Examples of straggled


straggled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


A little before the appointed time the members straggled in and disposed themselves on the tables and about the walls.
Not long afterward, residents straggled back and street life became more active.
In front of us a curious figure was standing, a little crouched, legs straggled, arms held out from his sides.
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His troops, poorly trained and dispirited from the rapid changes of command, straggled into action on unfavorable terrain.
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She the straggled behind the convoy and was abandoned.
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As a result, the fleet straggled out of the harbour in no particular formation.
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The huts, he wrote, are of a miserable order and straggled over a long continuous space.
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The wheat is very late and the huts are straggled over a long continuous space.
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Judah was so drunk that be had to be lifted from his horse when the rear guard straggled into camp.
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Instead, he stayed with the pack train and straggled far behind the column.
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Alonso straggled into fourth, his rear tyres almost entirely bald.
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At noon a straggled procession was formed of the system's 9 remaining vehicles which filed one by one into the depot which shut its gates without ceremony at 1230.
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Many men straggled and a number collapsed.
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All three ships straggled and were sunk.
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On this rough road through hills and ravines, half of the army's horses died, one-quarter of the soldiers straggled, and all but six artillery pieces were left behind.
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