straggle in/into/through etc• The patients sit down when he does; then the little nursesarid the residents straggle in.• Their last surviving companion straggled in after them; he had found his way alone.• Soon the rest of the girls would straggle in, the mail would arrive and another week would be under way.
straggle along/across/down etc• And got heavier as they left the small station and straggled down a steep, cinder path.• Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.• I loved the row of collard greens straggling across the garden.