How to Use ragtag in a Sentence

ragtag

adjective
Definition of ragtagnext
Synonyms for ragtagnext
  • Both the tent and the traveling quarters are on the ragtag side.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Watching a ragtag group of kids save the day never seems to get old.
    — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 9 July 2019
  • Three lead singers, 12 warped tunes, a ragtag team of rock misfits.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2021
  • At the Odyssey, the company has a loose, ragtag feeling.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Can a ragtag team of scientists save the planet in time?
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
  • Each side raised an army of ragtag soldiers to scare the other off, and nearly as many lawyers.
    — John Sedgwick, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
  • There, a ragtag group of boys playing soccer caught her eye.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
  • At one point, the ragtag pack of four homeless strays spies a U.S. Postal Service billboard.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The tragedy has sent reeling the ragtag world that revolves around the Beef, though the restaurant’s creditors don’t care.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • When Zhong Renhui joined the Red Army in the early '30s, the communist troops were a ragtag corps of peasants.
    — Jennifer Lin, Philly.com, 22 May 2017
  • On the street style front, the singer Soko showed up with a ragtag group of dudes all donning dresses last year at Paris Fashion Week.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • The ragtag crew of rebels don’t stand a chance; there are simply too many, and Grogu’s strength is seemingly at an all-time low.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Led by a tenth-place effort from Sam Gordon, the ragtag city-wide team finished fourth with 161 points.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Games are kind of ragtag, and there’s not really a standard.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • At 1600 hours on a recent Sunday, Wood and Norris joined a ragtag corps of air observers to scan the skies along the Hudson.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The title refers to a ragtag football game played by Marines on the island of Guadalcanal on Christmas Eve 1944.
    — Ben Yagoda, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The new kid to the neighborhood finds the 1950s version of his squad on a dusty diamond with a ragtag group of kids who love baseball.
    — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 11 Dec. 2019
  • No wonder those kids, in their ragtag finery, adored him.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Then the ragtag band of locals gathered on the common, shouted out their roll call, and waited.
    — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The assembly of athletes was something of a ragtag bunch.
    — Outside Online, 29 July 2021
  • And for the Lost Boys, start with pj's and add cardboard swords, a raccoon hat, and other ragtag accessories.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Spike and his ragtag group of misfits go on wild adventures in this beloved series.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Long-term, Harris wants to build a new stadium to replace the ragtag 27-year-old structure.
    — Hank Tucker, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • So how did this ragtag group morph into a deadly backup unit?
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2022
  • There have been countless coming-of-age shows built around ragtag groups of teenagers, but none have been quite like Reservation Dogs.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Along with a ragtag crew and a robot kitten for a sidekick, the space ranger may just be up to take on the complicated challenge.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 7 Aug. 2022
  • If barbecue and Cajun are the mom and dad of 225° Urban Smoke, their kids are the ragtag band of Southern eccentrics drawing on the wall with crayons.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • In addition to its fun storyline, the success of the film could be credited to the talent of its young cast, a ragtag mix of fresh faces.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 26 June 2020
  • Through the windows of the House chamber, Lofgren’s aides could see outside that a ragtag group of rioters had been able to climb atop the risers and the platforms.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2021
  • Based on the best-selling video game series of the same name, Borderlands follows a ragtag team of misfits who band together to battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits in the planet of Pandora.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2024

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