English example sentences with "ragged"

A ragged coat may cover an honest man.
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I dreamt that Congress effected sensible tax reform to improve the lot of the working class. I then woke up in a gutter with nothing but ragged clothes and a stolen guitar to my name.
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Truth has a good face, but ragged clothes.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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His eyes were as red burning coals; long grey hair fell over his shoulders in matted coils; his garments, which were of antique cut, were soiled and ragged, and from his wrists and ankles hung heavy manacles and rusty gyves.
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The buildings look pretty ragged now, but they still have charm.
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It was a spacious harbour, sheltered deep / from access of the winds, but looming vast / with awful ravage, AEtna's neighbouring steep / thundered aloud, and, dark with clouds, upcast / smoke and red cinders in a whirlwind's blast. / Live balls of flame, with showers of sparks, upflew / and licked the stars, and in combustion massed, / torn rocks, her ragged entrails, molten new, / the rumbling mount belched forth from out the boiling stew.
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Ragged little ones rolled in the dust of the streets, playing with scraps and pebbles. Other children, gaily dressed, were propped upon cushions and fed with sugar-plums. Yet the children of the rich were not happier than those playing with the dust and pebbles, it seemed to Claus.
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When she got to the town gates, and saw the young men and maids gossiping round the pond, and her mother sitting among them with a bundle of sticks she had picked up in the woods, Inge turned away. She was ashamed that one so fine as herself should have such a ragged old woman, who picked up sticks, for her mother.
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She was ashamed that one so fine as herself should have such a ragged old woman, who picked up sticks, for her mother.
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The surgical closure was poorly done, leaving a ragged scar.
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Ziri's clothes were old and ragged.
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You look ragged.
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Ziri had ragged clothes, looked dirty and disheveled.
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And along the entire 40-foot wall of the reception room, a photo-mural of a ragged, depression-era breadline brooded over the sleek heads of the beautifully dressed and elaborately fed tourists.
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There was a stove, a table, three chairs, a row of shelves containing a few articles of crockery and tinware, and a bed in the far corner of the room, on which rested a man with ragged gray beard and hair, a face long and thin, and coal-black eyes.
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Now go to the ball, Cinderella; but remember, if you stay one moment after midnight, your coach will instantly become a pumpkin, your horses will be mice, your coachman a rat, and your footmen lizards. And you? You will be once more only a cinder-maid in a ragged frock and with bare feet.
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It was a boy dressed in ragged velveteen breeches, and thin discoloured shirt.

I wear ragged clothes.