A line of pans, sluggish with weight, had lagged behind in the driving wind of the day before, and was now closing in upon the lighter fragments of the pack, which had fled in advance and crowded the bay.
Great Britain laggedbehind her Continental rivals in the development of the Fourth Arm, especially in matters pertaining to motive power.
But although Great Britain and France apparently lagged behind the Germans, appreciable enterprise was manifested in another direction.
The Infantry still lagged on the road, but at about two o'clock Sir Leslie Rundle himself arrived.
We had now to wait for the Infantry, and they laggedon the road.
So Jem was handed over to the dubsman;[21] and this time he'll get lagged for life.
Quite five minutes more lagged by before I got my watch, and when I crossed the courtyard I had no expectation of seeing her again; but no sooner had I passed through the gate than I discovered her in trouble.
It was she, not they, who pondered so carefully and paid so much for the morning, afternoon, and evening dresses in which they lagged about a fashionable hydro a fortnight later.
They had got nicely settled again in the attic, and Pat lay upon his couch making shadows on the wall with his well arm to amuse himself, for the hours lagged heavily; and he longed to be tugging at the great bales and boxes again.
Never lagged the time so wearily, and never was house more joyous than that, as the waning day brought the loved ones beneath its roof.
They had crossed the threshold while I lagged behind.
Again Diccon lagged behind, and presently I heard him groan in the darkness.
So, instead of pressing the pursuit with ardour, theylagged on it; toiling up the steep in straggled line, and at a crawl.
Many of the men, however, were so enfeebled that they could not keep up with the main body, butlagged at intervals behind; and some of them did not arrive at the night encampment.
All the stragglers who had lagged behind arrived, one after another, excepting the poor Canadian voyageur, Carriere.
They lagged often into a heavy-footed walk and their ears drooped dispiritedly.
She was tired when she reached the well, for her back was not used to burden-bearing as had been her mother's, and her steps had lagged because of the heaviness that was in her chest.
From his covert Walter Skinner saw them come, each leading a horse which he had stopped to get from the islet pasture, while Fleetfoot lagged behind on a little hunting expedition of his own.
With feigned zeal the two set out, but, once beyond the view of the king, their fiery pace lagged to a slow one as they rode toward Selby, where they were determined to halt for a night's rest.
The vivaces, at the theatre of Quiquendone, lagged like real adagios.
The polka, after being altered to four time, had tried to become accustomed to it; but the dancers always lagged behind the orchestra, no matter how slow the measure, and it had to be abandoned.
The hedge was so high that when the school-children lagged by, and the secrets behind it fired them with more curiosity than those between their battered book covers, the tallest of them by stretching up on tiptoe could not peer over.
What would she think of him if she knew all those young women haunted his house and lagged after meeting on the chance of getting a word from him?
Macedonia has maintained macroeconomic stability with low inflation, but it has so far lagged the region in attracting foreign investment and creating jobs, despite making extensive fiscal and business sector reforms.
Privatization has lagged since 2002, and the economy has one of highest levels of state control in the EU.
Despite its economic success, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Slovenia has lagged behind the region average, and taxes remain relatively high.
At the first stroke the scrivenerlagged far behind.
Indeed I would not have been aware of his presence had it not been for the crunching of the stones under his feet and a cautioning pinch on the arm when I lagged in my gait.
So, as the prosperity of a society is the prosperity of the individuals composing it, Shayton was not a very prosperous locality, and, in comparison with Sootythorn, lagged wofully behindhand in the race.
It may have even preceded the grill, just as the fork lagged behind the spoon, from which it is a seeming evolution.
It is open to doubt if, even in those primitive times, the supply of a national want laggedfar behind the demand.
They lagged behind, slipping and falling, and we of the rear face were all tangled up with a grunting, squealing, reeking mass of struggling animals.
If a dying man lagged behind, the others could not stop on his account.
Jim pulled evenly for a moment, then lagged again.
Her step was suddenly less elastic and she lagged on his arm.
One of the team, however, a heavy, powerful bay, lagged continually, at times almost stopping.
The facile word lagged when she tried to assume an attitude of bantering reserve, and her sincere nature oftener hid itself behind that of shy formality.
Y: But We saved him and his family, except his wife; her We destined to be of those who lagged behind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lagged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
