Sentence examples for stragglers from inspiring English sources
The word 'stragglers' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to people or things that have not kept up with the rest of a group or have been left behind. An example would be: "The stragglers were still several miles behind the main group."
We shower in the mobile "posh wash" unit, sit on beach chairs, drink lager and clap in the stragglers.
Signals couldn't be allowed to change midway through a platoon, or it would leave stragglers behind.
Kittel, meanwhile, is among the stragglers, some two minutes further back.
The mass-market SEAT and Skoda brands bulk up VW's sales but it makes most of its money from flashy Audis and Porsches.However, the game that the biggest carmakers are in is to survive for the long term as the stragglers fall by the wayside.
The 500 people waiting at 8.30am, when the visa office opens, should get their visas by noon, though on busy days stragglers may be told to collect it the next day.
Both offer lessons for governments around the world.In this section Donors: keep out New school values ReprintsAs far as star pupils and stragglers are concerned, the efficiency index resembles other rankings.
Stragglers were said to be getting into events.Even the visa situation was softening.
Stealthy redistribution helped stragglers keep up, and so did strong growth in employment.Yet the days of lessening inequality ended at about the same time as the OECD's analysis.
Yet the core problem is that Japan suffers from a gross misallocation of resources, both financial and human.Japan has long kept the cost of capital low, to boost investment or help stragglers.
The so-called "convoy system" lets corporate stragglers retain a small market share as bigger and better firms steam ahead.
The stragglers, however, do not really seem to understand why.
