straggling's Usage Examples:

straggle somewhat straggling in formation, the old heart of the village has considerable charm.

The streams, which are plentiful, are traced through the uplands and glens by a line of straggling brushwood and rank herbage.

straggles time walking wounded were arriving in a steady straggling line at the advanced dressing Station alongside the battery.

The whine of a straggling hound could be heard.

The town, which consists of one or two straggling streets, contains a handsome English church.

It is a large and straggling place, with a citadel, and the population amounts to 25,000.

Thus were formed the vast but straggling fiefs which are recorded in Domesday.

As Baldwin had secured the supremacy of the lay power in Jerusalem, so he extended into a compact kingdom the poor and straggling territories to which he had succeeded.

The capital town of Bahrein is Manameh, a long, straggling, narrow town of about 8000 inhabitants, chiefly of the Wahabi sect.

Timur is here displayed as a stoutish, long-bodied man, below the middle-height, in age and feature not unlike the first portrait, but with thicker and more straggling hair, and distincter, though not more agreeable character in the facial expression, yet not a sign of power, genius, or any elements of grandeur or celebrity.

In 1836 Old and New Accrington were merely straggling villages with about 5000 inhabitants.

Etampes is a long straggling town hemmed in between the railway on the north and the Chalouette on the south; the latter is a tributary of the Juine which waters the eastern outskirts of the town.

Dwarfed eucalypts fringe the tree-limit on Mount Kosciusco, and the soakages in the parched interior are indicated by a line of the same trees, stunted and straggling.

Synonyms:

rambling, straggly, sprawling, untidy,

Antonyms:

concentrated, groomed, fastidious, clean, tidy,