RAGGED in a Sentence

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His ginger-colored beard was scantier than ever, streaked with tobacco juice and as ragged as if he clawed at it incessantly.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAGGED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ragged
 a.  torn; worn; having an irregular surface or edge; uneven or jagged in outline
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  She knew her safety and that of the others in the back of the wagon depended on him and him alone, but she hated him for his sneering at those ragged ranks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  She left the dining room without eating, and went out onto the back porch where she found Pork, barefooted and in the ragged remains of his best livery, sitting on the steps cracking peanuts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  She was born to be pampered and waited upon, and here she was, sick and ragged, driven by hunger to hunt for food in the gardens of her neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Crouching back against the wall, Melanie pulled the ragged linen garment over her head and silently tossed it to Scarlett, shielding herself as best she could with her arms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  "Thank God, I'm not that modest," thought Scarlett, feeling rather than seeing Melanie's agony of embarrassment, as she wrapped the ragged cloth about the shattered face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  They were a ragged and ruffianly appearing crew, mounted on lame and heaving horses which obviously were in too bad condition to be used for more active service.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Within the envelope there was a piece of folded paper, grimy from the dirty pocket in which it had been carried, creased and ragged about the edges.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  His ginger-colored beard was scantier than ever, streaked with tobacco juice and as ragged as if he clawed at it incessantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  The little brick house that Ashley took for his family was on Ivy Street directly behind Aunt Pitty's house and the two back yards ran together, divided only by a ragged overgrown privet hedge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  Now Dilcey occupied one, and the other two were in constant use by a stream of miserable and ragged transients.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  For all his dirty, ragged clothes there was about him, as about most mountaineers, an air of fierce silent pride that permitted no liberties and tolerated no foolishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  Reluctantly he slid out of his hiding place, a giant ragged figure, bare-footed, clad in denim breeches and a blue Union uniform jacket that was far too short and tight for his big frame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
14  It was a big ragged white man and a squat black negro with shoulders and chest like a gorilla.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  It was a ragged copy of Les Miserables, that book which caught the fancy of the Confederate soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  They think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes and scanty food: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
2  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.
3  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.
4  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.
5  A ragged coat may cover an honest man.
6  She tore the page out roughly, leaving a ragged edge in the book.
7  The five survivors eventually reached safety, ragged, half-starved and exhausted.
8  A ragged colt may make a good horse.
9  The fairy godmother's magic charm turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown.
10  The highest quality paper is made mostly from rags.
11  He noticed what looked like a bundle of rags beside the road.
12  The rags smolder for hours before they burst into flame.
13  Going from rags to riches, and then back to rags again, the bankrupt financier was a victim of the mutability of fortune.
14  Use a rag soaked in linseed oil.
15  The rag trade is extremely competitive, and one needs plenty of contacts in order to survive.