Someone falling behind

Usage examples of straggler.

Only a few stragglers still sat in pews facing the altar and, above it, the enormous vid display of the Whole Earth-white clouds, blue ocean, and brown soil-ringed by the green yin-yang arrows, cycling eternally, representing the cyclical nature of life.

Finally, when most of the crowd had fled the restaurant, he was able to make his way through the stragglers to Dino, who was now bending over Bartlett, feeling at his throat for a pulse.

Doctor, Carey had ordered the stragglers off the place and had then, and not till then, walked round the dolmen and seen what lay on the ground beyond it.

The rabbi left Miriam to make her way through the front door where stragglers were still coming in, and hurried to a side door that led to the vestry and the narrow staircase to the enrobing room adjoining the altar.

These numbered fewer than a hundred, mostly stragglers from the great rout of the Farer army, and who because of fear or injuries had hidden in the hills instead of returning to Ged Darod with the bulk of the mob after the alien lightnings had barred their way to Irnan.

By sunrise, the entire combined forces of the invaders had cast aside their weapons and dissolved into a tide of morose and peevish stragglers moping across the countryside, utterly disorganized, complaining about trifles and whining over petty grievances, totally absorbed in their own vexations and displeasures.

From the edge of the ruins, he watched the stragglers arriving by air and land, and studied the wide sterile buffer zone surrounding the natatorium grounds, the energy barrier, and the security drones hovering in the airspace above.

Now and then an osel heeded the command of a boy or girl and sped to turn back a straggler.

One of the pix copter pilots, braver than the others, landed and waved to the stragglers to jump aboard.

STRAGGLER II Your Highness, I rode straight from Hassenhausen, Across the stream of battle as it boiled Betwixt that village and the banks of Saale, And such the turmoil that no man could speak On what the issue was!

The Scots, he had heard, had passed Macclesfield the night before, and all day the militia, horsed by the local squires, had been scouting the moors picking up breechless stragglers.

Royal Horticultural Society forward, spreading his arms wide to herd forward a couple stragglers who would obviously have preferred to linger.

Finally, the stragglers he is awaiting arrive-Tommy Molto, hurrying, and last, Hobie, with a harassed expression.

When they drew nearer, Jondalar dashed ahead, trying to outdistance the last straggler -- a young rhino, not full grown and having a little trouble keeping up.

Akers having assented to this programme, a force was landed at Fort Erie, who picked up a number of Fenian stragglers.