RAG in a Sentence

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For RAG, below is one of 228 sentences:
In her hurry she slipped on the rag rug and fell to the floor with a jolt but leaped up so quickly she was not even aware of the pain.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rag
 v.  censure severely or angrily
 n.  newspaper with half-size pages
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The heavy mahogany table and sideboards, the massive silver, the bright rag rugs on the shining floor were all in their accustomed places, just as if nothing had happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The floors were glistening and bare except for a few bright rag rugs, and the white walls unornamented save for one corner which Melanie had fitted up as a shrine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Uncle Henry wiped his wet feet on the rag rug and groaned as he drew on his tattered shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  In her hurry she slipped on the rag rug and fell to the floor with a jolt but leaped up so quickly she was not even aware of the pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  She felt as limp as a rag doll, warm, weak and helpless, and his supporting arms were so pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  The room where Suellen and Carreen lay mumbling and tossing on the same bed stank vilely with the smell of the twisted rag burning in a saucer of bacon fat, which provided the only light.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  "Dey wuz sick wid disyere thing," Mammy gestured with her rag to the two naked girls, dripping with water on their damp sheet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  "Dear God," she whispered, pulling out a bulging wallet, wrapped about with a rag.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  Scarlett tore off the rag and with trembling hands opened the leather folds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  "I'll do it with one of the rag rugs," whispered Melanie, looking at the pool of blood with a sick face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  There on the floor were the rag rugs Ellen had dyed and woven herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  Back she rushed to the dining room and snatched a rag rug from the floor, spilling two chairs with a crash.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  She had evidently been standing there for some time, for her head rag was damp and the old shawl clutched tightly about her showed rain spots.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Finally, Mammy, coming down the front stairs, her apron rumpled and spotted, her head rag awry, saw him and scowled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
15  She had changed to her best Sunday black and her apron and head rag were fresh and crisp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Use a rag soaked in linseed oil.
2  The rag trade is extremely competitive, and one needs plenty of contacts in order to survive.
3  Use a piece of old rag.
4  This sort of information is like a red rag to a bull for the tobacco companies.
5  We had a high school girl get in a tiff with another high school girl so she stuffed a gasoline soaked rag in their van's gas tank and lit it.
6  The fairy godmother's magic charm turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown.
7  The highest quality paper is made mostly from rags.
8  He noticed what looked like a bundle of rags beside the road.
9  The rags smolder for hours before they burst into flame.
10  Going from rags to riches, and then back to rags again, the bankrupt financier was a victim of the mutability of fortune.
11  They think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes and scanty food: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
12  He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woollen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses -- no, he only had one.
13  A beggar-woman and her little boy -- pale, ragged objects both -- were coming up the walk, and I ran down and gave them all the money I happened to have in my purse -- some three or four shillings: good or bad, they must partake of my jubilee.
14  They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs.
15  A ragged coat may cover an honest man.