Sentence examples for straggle behind from inspiring English sources

One group is ahead, a few straggle behind, among them Marwan and other children.

In fact, her brood cannot quite keep up with her, and by the end of the day, whoops, only two chicks still straggle behind.

Jayden was straggling behind, and, as his father's back was turned, a pit bull jumped over a back-yard fence and lunged at Jayden.

As its own Marines stumbled wearily across friendly lines, much of the Afghan platoon that worked with them was straggling behind, unable to keep pace.

His family were ahead and he was just straggling behind.

A second photograph, posted by UN staff on Tuesday, showed that the boy was straggling behind a larger group of refugees.

Although British schoolchildren perform reasonably well compared with those in other countries, average standards are not improving despite billions in extra spending, and a stubbornly long tail of underachievers straggles behind.

On the final weekend before the Iowa caucuses, the presidential candidates straggling behind the leaders – Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio for the Republicans, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democrats – carried on with brave faces, despite sinking poll numbers and ambivalent voters.

Signalling that, for now at least, Mrs Clinton will be first among equals in his foreign policy team, the President-elect draped his arm over her shoulder as they left the press conference, with the rest of his new team straggling behind.

With a litre of Machaquito, a flask of water, a holy medal, and a rattling box of quarter-grain codeine, the crowd sent the writer off, bumping and bouncing down the forest road, with an escort of outriders, and a horde of footmen straggling behind.

However, he is captured in the end by punitive forces after wandering the snow-capped mountains while straggling behind.