(n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
(n.) A roving vagabond.
(n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
(n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only a few stragglers outside O'Byron's pub refused to believe this was happening on Good Friday.
(2) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
(3) Some findings of the live animal, such as 'straggler', were associated with a wide range of post-mortem abnormalities.
(4) Then I had to wait for God knows how long until Will Adamsdale wheeled it out again for the stragglers, and when he did, I rolled up and watched slack-jawed.
(5) The euro was always meant to be a political project above all – lifting Europe’s stragglers up to the living standards of the rest and, in doing so,k cementing the political ties between Athens and Antwerp, Madrid and Munich.
(6) Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker, and her lieutenants lobbied till the last minute to round up final stragglers, but heroic measures were needed.
(7) Maybe, next week, we'll see if these stragglers fold into the party ranks.
(8) With stragglers Obama and India's Manmohan Singh confirming their attendance over the weekend, some 100 world leaders are now expected to be in Copenhagen, bolstering chances of emerging with an agreement by 18 December.
(9) #afc September 2, 2013 6.14pm BST Here come the stragglers Crystal Palace have confirmed the signing of Adrian Mariappa, the Jamaica centre-back, from Reading for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract.
(10) The Arsenal defenders among the stragglers departing this arena could only wince at another glimpse of Didier Drogba .
(11) Results from a second laboratory contained both stragglers and outliers.
(12) Leave us last stragglers of the culture apocalypse in peace to paw in fingerless gloves through 12-inch relics of the time when music was still a living, radical thing.
(13) He's able to gather an army from the weak-minded, the stragglers, finding the darkness that's in us all and using it.
(14) The bot wheels around pastures on remote control, drawing stragglers back to the herd, though without actually having to nip at their heels.
(15) They’ve already given him an easy-to-use script that should be too predictable: “Hillary Clinton is much too dangerous, Trump has vowed to change his ways …” Yes, there are a few stragglers who will never be converted.
(16) Watson welcomed the winning runner at the tape, encouraged the stragglers and then, on Sunday night, led a Q&A session.
(17) Then the family gathered themselves and made their way down to the entrance on the Strand, pausing to let the stragglers out before them, knowing the grand exit that was expected, and prepared to do their bit.
(18) Now sex traffickers are following the columns of refugees, picking off young unaccompanied stragglers .
(19) While Bush and other stragglers such as Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee failed to make much impression on the debate, the third Republican TV showdown revealed how wide open its primary race remains compared with a Democratic race increasingly dominated by Clinton.
(20) But "stragglers" may not be allowed to finish if they're still running at night.
Struggler
Definition:
(n.) One who struggles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harry Redknapp said it was an important time to start picking up points, with their fellow strugglers Burnley, West Brom and Crystal Palace all visiting Loftus Road before the new year.
(2) The German has left the Premier League strugglers by mutual consent less than a year after joining.
(3) That's bad news for the Club Med countries but the travel group Tui says it had a much better summer this year than last so perhaps the eurozone strugglers of Spain Greece and Portugal will find they took more tourist euros this year.
(4) Maybe some of the group's circulation strugglers should start "dancing with the fishes" ( copyright Stephen Quinn ) as well.
(5) The only team who stayed in touch with me was Ajaccio.” So Ochoa signed for the Ligue 1 strugglers.
(6) Kelechi is the reason we did not feel the need to replace Edin Dzeko or Stevan Jovetic.” West Ham stand firm at Liverpool to earn FA Cup fourth round replay Read more Rémi Garde had pointed out in the match programme that City were his first opponents as Villa manager, and on that day, in November, the relegation strugglers had been greatly encouraged by a fighting 0-0 draw in a game they were expected to lose.
(7) Sunderland sign Lamine Koné from Lorient for an undisclosed fee Read more The Premier League strugglers Sunderland have completed the signing of the Tunisia international Wahbi Khazri from Bordeaux for an undisclosed fee, believed to be in the region of £9m.
(8) Ray Wilkins has become the latest high-profile member of Rene Meulensteen's backroom staff at Fulham after being named as the new assistant head coach of the Premier League strugglers.
(9) His side have shocked everyone this season, transforming themselves under the Italian from relegation strugglers 12 months ago to title contenders.
(10) West Brom are expected to return with a second offer for the winger, who has scored five goals in 22 games for the Championship strugglers.
(11) Through its involvement in the "troika" with the European Commission and International Monetary Fund, the ECB is dictating fiscal and economic policy to eurozone strugglers.
(12) Real Madrid continued their serene progress under their new coach Zinedine Zidane when Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema each helped themselves to two goals in a 5-1 drubbing of the La Liga strugglers Sporting Gijón on Sunday.
(13) How eurozone strugglers must wish they had such luck.
(14) When Rooney and Van Persie are not playing United have the feel of what they currently are: a side of mid-table strugglers.
(15) A mong the scores of commitments to reform which came tumbling out of NHS England’s Five Year Forward View last week, a picture emerges of how the national bodies are going to leverage reforms among both the high-performers and the strugglers.
(16) So the unexpected windfall in overall national wealth must stick in the craw of the eurozone strugglers.
(17) They were inferior to their rivals by a glaring 16 goals, with Louis van Gaal’s strugglers beating opposition goalkeepers 49 times, the club’s poorest return since the 46 of 1989-90.
(18) Lee Clark has been named as Blackpool’s new manager, just 10 days after being sacked by fellow Championship strugglers Birmingham.
(19) The rest of the time he ran a pub with his wife Anne – their first pub, in Hollinwood, near Oldham, was called Help the Poor Struggler.
(20) It’s the romantic notion of the 19th century, that the artist is the struggler, aberrant from society, and wrestling with inner demons,” he said.