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Definition of "stragglingly" []

  • In a straggling way. (adverb)

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Use "stragglingly" in a sentence
  • "She mutters something about her great fear of lightning and thunder; signs her name even more stragglingly than usual, and is at last led by"
  • "Finally, about noon, they kicked their two prisoners into the river, and took their way stragglingly back along the right-of-way."
  • "Primitive conditions everywhere prevailed, and communities brooded in silence, growing stragglingly in sluggish indifference, content with coarse food and coarser living."
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