Definition of "stragglers" [stragglers]

• Plural form of straggler. (noun)

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• "He could hear them on the plain beyond the lodge gate, hundreds of stragglers from the main herd spread out on the veld, swarming the dirt trail that led down to the water hole."
• "Yeah, maybe that's leaving some people out in the cold, but as long as the overwhelming majority of people benefit, a couple of stragglers is par for the course."
• "Whether we had fallen into the hands of highwaymen, or of stragglers from the French army, was doubtful for a while, as not a syllable was spoken, nor a sound uttered, except by the unhappy functionaries, who grumbled prodigiously as they were dragged along through "rough and smooth, moss and mire," and whose pace was evidently quickened by many a kick and blow of the fusil."