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Pronunciation: [stɹˈaɡləz] (IPA)

Stragglers are people or things that linger behind or fall behind a group or pack. Synonyms for the word "stragglers" include laggards, dawdlers, slackers, slowpokes, and trailing behind. These terms describe someone or something that is lagging behind, not keeping up with the pace or standards set by the rest of the group. Other synonyms for stragglers include tardy, dilatory, and sluggish. These words are often used to describe students who fall behind in their studies, workers who are slow to complete tasks, or travellers who lag behind in a tour group. Regardless of the context, being a straggler can result in being left behind or missing out on important opportunities.
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Only a few feeble stragglers said "Yes," among them Sissy Jupe.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
It was here, also, that many gallant deeds were done by men who had lost their officers, and by the officers who had lost their men but collected stragglers and groups from mixed units to get on with the attack.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
A lance-corporal of the Manchesters rallied up stragglers, organized groups, and rushed some of the German strong points.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Stragglers

  • As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.
    Daniel H. Hill
  • After hearing incessantly that the people follow him without sense or discretion, heis liable to fall a victim of the delusion which he has created, and to imagine that he possesses some personal attraction, by virtue of which he is followed.He will diverge from the authorized track... From habit, the people will move a little in his erratic course.He soon becomes monomaniac, and is abandoned except by a few stragglers as crazy as himself; while he interprets the abandonment into ingratitude or heterodoxy, and grows scurrilous, turbulent, and impotent.
    Alexander Bryan Johnson

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