How to Use ragged in a Sentence
ragged
adjective
- You look a little ragged—did you have a rough week?
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The ragged trees of my youth, up on the hills, looked like ghosts.
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New York Times,
6 Oct. 2021
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This may be the function of the owl wing’s ragged fringes.
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Dana MacKenzie,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2020
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The ragged ends of two thick limbs jutted from the trunk.
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Ted Gregory,
chicagotribune.com,
27 Apr. 2018
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Press to seal, trim any ragged edges, and crimp edges with tines of fork.
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Tribune News Service,
cleveland,
14 Mar. 2022
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What cowardice has caused you to retreat from the ragged heart of the desert?
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Mila Koumpilova,
The Seattle Times,
25 Feb. 2018
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Their ragged edges streaked with black dirt stare at him.
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Hurmat Kazmi,
The Atlantic,
23 Nov. 2021
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The ragged scar running throat to navel, from his open-heart surgery.
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oregonlive.com,
16 June 2019
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The ragged start for the Rockets offense might have been a good thing.
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Jonathan Feigen,
Houston Chronicle,
19 Jan. 2018
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The truth is no longer sought in the ragged howls of the blues or the verses of the Bible, but in a tank of gas and a rearview mirror.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
4 May 2023
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In the distance, rising against the stars, was a ragged range of mountains.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Mar. 2024
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The sculptures on the screen were arranged beneath a string of flags made ragged by the wind.
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
Harper’s Magazine ,
28 Sep. 2022
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The nail on my right hand, the ragged ending to a difficult day.
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Mary Jo Bang,
The New Yorker,
27 June 2022
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Smooth edges will heal better than the ragged edges left from the deer rubbing.
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Tim Johnson,
chicagotribune.com,
11 Oct. 2020
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Cut this selection to the ground in spring to get rid of the ragged growth left from winter.
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Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
30 June 2023
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So the ragged layers in these paintings can be seen as skin.
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Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
1 July 2022
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Be sure to tear the meat off the bone into thick, ragged hunks to better sop up the dressing.
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Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune,
Star Tribune,
2 Sep. 2020
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Even the females sported this ragged look, but in warm brown.
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Dave Taft,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2018
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Truth be told, that DID lead to a couple of rather ragged endings.
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Chuck Yarborough,
cleveland,
6 Feb. 2020
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He is left there in the hallway to recover, like a ragged doll of a wet fish.
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Devin Kelly,
Longreads,
26 Jan. 2023
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Kagalula had to restart his life from scratch and now lives in a ragged straw hut.
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Alec Jacobson,
National Geographic,
3 May 2019
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The ragged assembly smelled of sweat, camp smoke and weeks of combat.
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Thomas Curwen Staff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Dec. 2021
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Has this ragged brick chapel on Salt Lake City’s west side run out of useful lives?
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
17 Jan. 2021
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These men and women have been run ragged and are still running strong.
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Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
25 Aug. 2021
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Buckskin Gulch is a gnarly rip in the desert that cuts a ragged path along the Utah-Arizona border.
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David Kelly,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2021
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Sunday’s matinee got off to a ragged start as the teams combined to make just one of 10 shots.
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Los Angeles Times,
21 Nov. 2021
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Keep an eye out for holes and ragged edges in brassica leaves.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Jan. 2022
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No one seemed to notice the ragged man walking to his suicide.
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Ted Jackson,
NOLA.com,
3 Feb. 2018
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She’s never given a ragged performance like this, but the dour movie is a tough sit.
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Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
16 Sep. 2024
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Chief among them was the decision to lean toward a ragged, high-energy sound rather than precision.
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Tom Roland,
Billboard,
2 Aug. 2024
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