What is "stragglers"

Usage examples of "stragglers".

The pair ran up the slope after stragglers, past wounded and dead, until they reached the trees and green dawn light.

But presently we found a spring of fresh water, convenient, and then, with nothing to mar our enjoyment, and no stragglers to interrupt it, we entered into our rest.

The last stragglers bypassed their fallen members to join the herd in a ground-shaking stampede.

Even with a strong cohort of Lions and various stragglers, the Quman outnumbered them, and as far as Anna could tell, their enemies had no shortage of arrows.

He had Read all around the area hours before, and found no stragglers within his range.

Villages were plundered and in some cases burned, and in retaliation the peasantry killed or took prisoners stragglers and those left behind.

No quarter was given to the stragglers and fugitives who fell into the hands of the English.

Here and there he discovered a few stragglers wandering about aimlessly, but they were so few that he could have counted them individually.

On the left of them, only a few stragglers were appearing round the corner of the garden, and they did not yet seem to know what was happening.

The stragglers, sitting dumbly on the buses, hunched in their cars or wobbling sleepily on their bikes, were drifting through the High Street.