Crossword-Solution: STRAGGLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Straggle | v. t. | To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle. |
| Straggle | v. t. | To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. |
| Straggle | v. t. | To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth. |
| Straggle | v. t. | To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. |
| Straggle | n. | The act of straggling. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “STRAGGLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wander from line of march. | 1 answer |
| Trail slowly behind the person in front | 1 answer |
| Opposite of lead | 1 answer |
| Lag behind the rest of the group | 1 answer |
| Fall behind the pack | 1 answer |
| Stray behind | 2 answers |
| Don't keep up | 2 answers |
| Trail the pack | 3 answers |
| Wander off | 3 answers |
| Wander off course | 4 answers |
| Lag behind | 6 answers |
| A WANDERING OR DISORDERLY GROUPING | 11 answers |
| Bring up the Rear | 15 answers |
| *Fall behind | 19 answers |
| Fall Back | 25 answers |
| Tarry | 34 answers |
| Lag | 35 answers |
| Trail | 36 answers |
| Meander | 39 answers |
| Amble | 46 answers |
| rove | 48 answers |
| Ramble | 55 answers |
| Wander | 64 answers |
| Dawdle | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with STRAGGLE (5)
Puts it somewhere on every creature that comes from his hands.” Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of the citizens continued searching.
The train made its accustomed detour through West Philadelphia and North Philadelphia before getting down to business, and the two voyagers felt a personal hatred of the brakemen who permitted passengers from these suburbs to straggle leisurely aboard instead of flogging them in with knotted whips.
Young Clare kept watch on the wall--he cried, "Now, haste, Ralph! this is the time to seize; The rebels are round us on every side, But here they straggle by twos and threes." Then out I led her, and up I sprung, And the postern door on its hinges swung.
Two or three singers generally preceded the bier; the howlers (who are paid for their vocal labours) followed after, and last of all came such of the dead man’s friends and relations as could keep up with such a rapid procession; these, especially the women, would get terribly blown, and would straggle back into the rear; many were fairly “beaten off.” I never observed any appearance of mourning in the mourners: the pace was too severe for any solemn affectation of grief.
Our careless City Fathers have not even given themselves the trouble of pushing their stone and brick volumes into the same line, but allow them to straggle along the shelf—I beg pardon, the sidewalk—according to their own sweet will.
Quotes with STRAGGLE (1)
The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congreg…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1961–2023).