straggle 的定义
strag·gled, strag·gling.
- to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- to wander about in a scattered fashion; ramble.
- to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals: The trees straggle over the countryside.
straggle 近义词
wander, stray
更多straggle例句
- The humpbacks would slap their tails to keep the prey inside that sphere, and pick off the straggling fish nearer to the outside.
- Better to straggle along on Zoom, seeing one another’s faces, than mask up for eight hours or more.
- One by one, the boys straggle out to the cars, again looking sleepy and hung-over.
- It was plain that the Indians were dogging our steps day and night, and the men were warned not to straggle.
- The Rebel army had made slower marches, and the soldiers could not straggle; they were in an enemy's country.
- Soon groups of natives began to straggle up, not in regular formation this time.
- The agile and powerful Zulu, however, was half up in a moment, and the straggle became a hand-to-hand one.
- He could either possess his soul in patience until the mounted contingent began to straggle back, or risk another rock-fall.