How To Use Ragbag In A Sentence
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She was not a pretty beast, an old ragbag patched and streaked in black and white and grey and fox-colour.
ON CATS
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These books were a hectic ragbag; the second a hurdle race through western history, tragic hero after tragic hero, the last two a gallimaufry of intimate materials and early poems précised.
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Foxes via the ragbag withmore cards to come posted by Andrew Simone in animals, language | * | 12 comments comments
Foxes | clusterflock
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The only thing which has bound this ragbag together has been a distrust of the European Union.
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Instead there was a ragbag of patients from all strata of society being wheeled around looking rather forlorn.
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Even he could not deny that Rentokil's ‘highly diversified portfolio’ was in fact a thinly disguised ragbag of corporate clutter.
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The largest chapter in the book is titled ‘Tourism, Society, and the Political Economy’, in which Chambers examines a ragbag of issues.
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Lola asked Rose Lusty, as she seemed the most normal of the trio, having watched the ragbag tribe disappear.
TICKLED PINK
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This wasn't a ragbag of promises and emollient phrases designed to patch up a political problem, as some previous ones have been.
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So, as Fianna Fáil abandoned the ragbag of right-wingers with whom they sat in the European Parliament in order to join a major group, the British Conservatives are doing the opposite.
Things that caught my eye
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She fetched her ragbag and spray bottle and began her rounds.
Yellow
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In contrast, those with luck on their side will probably refer to bulletin boards, Sunday broadsheets and own a ragbag collection of different companies without any common theme.
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The channel presents a ragbag of cooking programmes aimed at the long suffering housewife.
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And we remain deeply sceptical about a ragbag of other provisions, including the proposed new offence of incitement to religious hatred, all unnecessarily swept into a package of emergency legislation.
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DS Hatchley was out rounding up his ragbag assortment of informants.
AFTERMATH
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We can do so much better than this tawdry ragbag of liars, thieves and war criminals.
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The first film is a ragbag of disconnected routines built around the flimsiest of plots, taken directly from a successful stage revue.
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The fuel protests are a ragbag of different interests.
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The denser these belief-belief relations are, the more a given system is a genuine system and not just a ragbag of unrelated opinions.
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Observing Japan's Tobias Harris, who is cited as a major source in the story, disagrees with that overall assessment implicit in words like "ragbag" and "set adrift" and believes that the significance of the internal differences has been blown up beyond reasonable proportions.
GlobalTalk 21
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He accepted her own counsel's description that it was ‘a ragbag of contradictions.’
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This brings the unwanted attentions of local despot Hatcher who, with his ragbag of cut-throat henchmen, sets out to destroy the heroes and nab the treasure for himself.
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Somebody appears to have gone to an immense amount of trouble to assemble a ragbag of every kind of mumbo-jumbo and superstition; a great waste of time, in my opinion.
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He summarises the anti-capitalists' annual international get-together at Porto Alegre in Brazil as ‘a ragbag of declamation, hot air and vapidity’.
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This is a ragbag of delights and compromises, as all such compilations are.
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This brings the unwanted attentions of local despot Hatcher who, with his ragbag of cut-throat henchmen, sets out to destroy the heroes and nab the treasure for himself.
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The constitutional renewal bill, now becalmed in parliament, is a ragbag of issues.
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So I hope voters will vote for one, and not ragbag independent candidates.
Peter Baggs - Independent candidate for Norwich North
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A healthy, slightly overweight man had been reduced to a ragbag of bones in a matter of months.
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Media exposés like the BBC's The Secret Agent have helped to transform a ragbag party into the talking point of British politics.
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The sales tax on clothing should drop into the ragbag of history, a move that Mayor Giuliani proposed and Albany rejected.
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The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
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They were made from second-hand jute burlap and scraps of fabric pulled from ragbags and storage bins.
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Previously known for his performances as Alan Parker Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, he's now operating under his own name and offering a thoroughly enjoyable ragbag of sketches, stories, video clips, artwork and more.
This week's new comedy
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Instead there was a ragbag of patients from all strata of society being wheeled around looking rather forlorn.
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Anderson's obvious enthusiasm has rubbed off on the rest of Floro's squad, which is made up of a ragbag of rejects with points to prove.
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Well, nominally anyway: in fact, comics Matt Crosby, Tom Parry and Ben Clark use the credit crunch as little more than a jumping-off point for their usual overstuffed ragbag of imaginative, larger-than-life sketch comedy.
This week's new comedy
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The food is not dressy, and the casual mood - derived from a ragbag of bar furniture, closely arranged tables and log-burning fires - is fully intended.
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The contrast was stark, and it made the soldiers look like the proverbial "ragbag" of the group.
Stars and Stripes
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Some short time ago, I stumbled upon a delightful blog known as the ragbag, which I quickly subscribed to after reading about five posts, in no small part because reading it reminds me of the sort of strange conversations I used to have in college with my suitemate and fellow mathemagician.
Senatorial abuse and apostrophe misuse « Motivated Grammar
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My memory is a ragbag of half-remembered lines, half-forgotten verses, a disorganised anthology in which the phrase ‘and rum-ti-tum’ constantly recurs.