How To Use Ragged In A Sentence

He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world. Flash For Freedom
An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
The pacing was uneven, and the early second act dragged.
I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.

He bragged that he had passed the exam easily.
His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety.
As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain. Guanajuato restaurants
The grass looked like an old worn carpet, faded and ragged; the horizon was pressing against the cliff.
No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing.
PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
He wore a ragged grey beard. Times, Sunday Times
She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors
She tells me she is just back from the hairdresser and the coiffure will revert to ragged ringlets as soon as it hits rain.
Mr Wilson claimed the dog, believed to be a Japanese Akita, grabbed his right hand with its teeth and dragged him to the ground.
He dragged himself up the walk, dimly noticing that the front window was covered with condensation.
He blustered and bullyragged; he had been their boss and he had been fired without cause, he insisted. Joan of Arc of the North Woods
To reduce this effect I tend to use large bodied wagglers, which are more stable in the water and are not dragged out of position so easily.
He grabbed a fistful of that lush cashew-colored hair that made Pink Jenny so popular, twisted her arm behind her in a vicious half nelson, and dragged her up to my face.
Jamaerah was barefoot, wearing only a pair of ragged stonewashed jeans, playing an invisible guitar to “Put Your Lights On,” rocking out while coffee brewed, singing his heart out in perfect pitch, wings spread, eyes closed, and an expression of sheer ecstasy gracing his beautiful face. Surrender the Dark
He believes one of the reasons the move ended up dead in the water was that negotiations dragged on too long.
Witnesses said Yuwono was dragged from his house by a number of people brandishing machetes and other sharp weapons, who later stabbed him.
He watched the heavy blue fabric shredded open with the ragged capillary signature of summer lightning. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
Such was the rapturous applause that he was dragged out for a second time to take a bow. Times, Sunday Times
Anderson dragged her into his office for a keelhauling and everyone went back to regular blowing.
She's been spotted at a homeless shelter and dragged kicking and screaming back to Walford. The Sun
When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton
The children were ragged and dirty, and all looked to be between the ages of eleven and thirteen.
She whacked her head on the door as he dragged her in. The Sun
A ragged man emerged from behind the tree.
Arsenal, who are looking increasingly ragged, win a free-kick just outside the box.
Satisfied that no other bravos were abiding beyond it, he dragged the dead man by his sandaled feet into the room.
He wore a ragged grey beard. Times, Sunday Times
The man who dragged her from the house wore the shining, metal armor of a knight.
The whale will be dragged up its main ramp and butchered.
They dragged her from her bed.
In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
She gripped a fancy mat which covered an ornate table by her side, and dragged a begilded vase on to the floor without even noticing it. The Box with Broken Seals
They were little boys and little girls that were covered in dirt and mud while their clothes were ragged in that smelly dump.
For they ran his old club ragged and if there was any justice they would have been at least 3-0 up at half-time. The Sun
Nae tawted tyke, though e'er sae duddie, [matted cur, ragged] Robert Burns How To Know Him
The lecture dragged on and my mind wandered.
Smart lads, they hadn't flaunted the loot, bragged about the heist, or written a rap song memorializing the event.
We dragged her to the gate.
When he opened his eyes the dirigible was making another turn, less precipitous than before and — he hadn’t realized, but now saw through ragged gaps in the fog — at a lower altitude, some two hundred feet above what looked like a low fennish grassland, with scarcely a single tree in sight. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
"Twenty in all, " her brother answered, his voice ragged.
England became increasingly ragged in the field, and the game yet again was prised away. Times, Sunday Times
A chaier of crimson velvet, the seate and backe partlie embrothered, with R.L. in cloth of goulde, the beare and ragged staffe in clothe of silver, garnished with lace and fringe of goulde, silver, and crimson silck. Kenilworth
Ian's breathing becomes more and more ragged as he drags draught after draught of air deep into his lungs.
The strike duo ran the Shrimpers ragged at times. The Sun
I carried her with me and placed her on the ladder and she scrambled up, her little, ragged dress catching momentarily on the nails of the rafters.
The thieves had scaled two fences and dragged the pup out of her locked kennel and lifted her over the walls, leaving two less valuable dogs behind.
But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
I could say that the effect of the dream was to leave me feeling limp and ragged all day since.
And the ragged offstage chorus needed work. Times, Sunday Times
As she approached the local railway station at the end of her route, she was struck by somebody from behind, held in an armlock around her throat and dragged off towards nearby dense trees and undergrowth.
Time dragged slowly but somehow the hour passed, and the time came to go on through to the hall where the gig was being held.
It was raggedness linked with raving and ruin, such as none there had looked at nor dreamed of.
The bullet had gone through, gouging a ragged hole through the muscle, but missing the bone.
After I'd almost recovered, he dragged me out of bed and began slapping me.
Grosjean outdragged him along the front straight before cutting inside at La Source and into a lead that he never looked like relinquishing. Pitpass - the latest hottest F1 & A1 GP news
The war dragged on, costing the lives of many thousands of civilians and servicemen.
The company's wholesale division dragged its heels on equipping local exchanges for ADSL, understandably, while it figured out a way of making it pay.
Splitting of the microveins of the cubitus anterior gives the margin a ragged appearance.
A single very small spherical shell is characterized by a lumpy to ragged surface and numerous short spines.
In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
When the man found that we were going to stay all night he bestirred himself, dragged some of the things to one side and put down a shake-down of pulu (the silky covering of the fronds of one species of tree-fern), with a sheet over it, and a gay quilt of orange and red cotton. The Hawaiian Archipelago
She dragged out the swing and hung it on chains that dangled from the ceiling of the porch. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
THE flying of stunt kites has been banned at Blackpool after a woman walking her dog became entangled in a string and was dragged to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Ragged fire from the slug guns ended in a choking cloud of plaster dust and an ear-splitting roar as most of the west wall fell, severed from its foundations by the azoth Silk had received from Doctor Crane and given to Maytera Mint. Exodus From The Long Sun
He did not think that a "chiel" was near, "taking notes," and will, doubtless, feel quite angry at having his character touched off in the ragged style of a slave's pen. My Bondage and My Freedom
There was another raggedy girl cleaning up tables behind me, and she was singing too.
A supine man is roughly dragged off like a carcass.
His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her. Sketches by Boz
As time dragged on, they realised that they weren't going to find their dream home.
The rest of the day dragged by, and eventually came to the bus ride home.
The police dragged the football fans off the pitch.
His daughter looked like a chained monkey being whipped and dragged roughly along, leaping silently but wildly from side to side.
The current liquidity crisis has seen perfectly viable small companies dragged down. Times, Sunday Times
Later, we learned that the explosions were so close that the concussion shook their aircraft, but they were not fragged.
This weekend in sickening episode of political cynicism Livingstone cheerleaders dragged out the corpse of Stephen Lawrence onto the stage courtesy of his duped mother. Black Issues or White Guilt
It had been shot off in the days when he used to wear a red beret and ragged fatigues. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
As to when that might be, he is blunt: ‘When I'm dragged out kicking and screaming, or my body packs in.’
But it was all a bit ragged. Times, Sunday Times
This process dragged on for over a year, while at the same time in the city, the gas and heating were cut off.
Disc harrows consisting of gangs of concave steel discs are dragged at an angle to the line of draught.
the family was starved and ragged
And on Wednesday, a ragged six-foot-tall guy in shorts with his shirttail out—Sacca—would go to some double-wide trailer where the development people worked. In the Plex
Our hearts have been gouged out and we have been left with ragged, weeping wounds. Times, Sunday Times
I dragged myself onto my knees beside her to check that she hadn't broken her toe or anything serious like that, but I was little help, draping myself over her shoulder as I attempted to focus upon her foot.
I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, humping their bags of bags, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble.
Reinertsen is a pompous ass who ragged on him terribly in his doolie year—the label for the freshman hell-in-residence period at Doolittle Hall. Orbit
He screamed, letting the sound die out in ragged sobbing. Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline'
The pastiness combined with all of her wrinkles, and it made her look absolutely dreadful, as though she was an anemic dragged from the grave.
It was not that his spirits were visibly high -- he would never, in the concert of pleasure, touch the big drum by so much as a knuckle: he had a mortal dislike to the high, ragged note, to what he called random ravings. The Portrait of a Lady
In the corridor were four dirty, ragged bundles, just identifiable as human beings.
In the back is a group of Welsh fusiliers, and here's me, a ragged scarecrow creature from the swamp, an image from a schlock nightmare.
What do you do when life takes you all the way to the ragged edge of reality? Christianity Today
I could hear the sound of his ragged breathing.
According to police affidavits unsealed two weeks after the fire, other residents told police that McLeod had talked about burning down the building earlier that night and bragged about having "torched" it afterward. TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region
It was a ragged, unkempt pony, pitifully poor and very footsore, at first sight, an absolute "moke"; but a second glance showed colossal round ribs, square hips, and a great length of rein, the rest hidden beneath a wealth of loose hair. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
Oh, ermined Judge whose duty to society is, now, to doom the ragged criminal to punishment and death, hadst thou never, Man, a duty to discharge in barring up the hundred open gates that wooed him to the felon's dock, and throwing but ajar the portals to a decent life! Dickensian Verse
Again we notice the ragged effect of massive snow avalanches.
Mom dragged us to a classical music concert.
You dragged yourself to school, your mind seething with half-digested algebraic formulas. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore.
Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
I have stupidly bragged that I could turn out some doggerel about anything; given the time.
She dragged herself into the lounge room and collapsed longways onto the sofa.
Malpractice cases carry a significant emotional cost for doctors, said study co-author Amitabh Chandra, an economist and professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government"They hate having their name dragged through the local newspaper and having to go to court," he said. Study: Only 1 in 5 medical malpractice cases pay
Air travel was already at the ragged edge of bearability before this latest threat arose.
She was swaying from side to side and the men unshackled her from the ceiling and dragged her to a metallic chair, bolted to the floor.
She is being dragged backwards, away from the excrescence that despoils her bedroom floor, onto the landing. A MEANS TO EVIL
Then I need to put together the jumpsuit which is really a Raggedy Andy pattern and transform it into Fat Elvis. Crafty
We quickly moved to the front of the ragged pack, a dozen or so wobbly tourists and a few real riders.
My father, being a senior consultant in a busy hospital, dragged us around the wards to spread good tidings to patients and to munch the array of nibbles in the nurses' rooms.
They build a rather ragged, domed nest about a foot off the ground and lay four or five eggs. Times, Sunday Times
After laying down discrete patches of dark umber in grid formations, Briggs dragged an unloaded brush through the pigment, leaving behind episodic squiggles that vaguely resemble Chinese characters.
They build a rather ragged, domed nest about a foot off the ground and lay four or five eggs. Times, Sunday Times
He miscalculated the tides and the whirlpool dragged the outboard engine off his boat and capsized it.
The film dragged terribly.
The unmown grass, the ragged-looking shrubs, that pile of dead limbs and brush behind the poplar: Some would say, as my misinformed neighbors have hinted from time to time, these are symptoms of a good-for-nothing homeowner.
Mom dragged us to a classical music concert.
When I passed my eleven-plus, she dragged me up to school, no bus fares, we had to walk.
With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
He's walking a dog with a ragged coat of fair.
Agincourt.] [Footnote IV. 16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, _] By their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.] King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
With an awkward wriggle, he dragged his head clear.
Working like beavers, Montcalm's men dragged twenty cannon to a hill commanding the fort, known as "Fort Rascal" because the outfort there was useless to the English. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
She dragged the brush through her daughter's long hair, untangling knots as she went.
He later bragged that he was the only performer ever to get a complex comic scene right without needing a second take.
After Monique rented the rollerskates, she dragged me unto the rink.
From the expression on the faces of many of them I knew some professor had dragged his class down to the museum and a goodly number of the students wanted to be anywhere but looking at old books.
The screenplay was written in nine whole days, bragged the credits.
He slipped over the ragged mat which formed the eaves, and the next moment, _crack, crack, crack_, he was hanging feet downwards, and then fell heavily in a cloud of dust bump upon the trampled earth, in company with a snake about six feet long, which began to glide rapidly away. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
He was wearing a long, ragged shirt with a cut in the sleeve and a frayed edge.
They caught him and dragged him back to her. The Tribes Triumphant
Expelling a ragged sigh, Sahara wandered over to the sound system and put in a CD.
Every few hours, under hundreds of shanty tents and lean-tos scattered across the hills, they pour mercury from metal flasks into soil that they have dragged in sacks down rutted tracks behind bullocks.
Blanche gasped, a ragged sound, her fair, trembling hand jumping to cover her mouth.
He is plagued by his poor relationship with his father who dragged him about Europe as a child performing pieces on cloth covered pianofortes from the age of 5 to his early teens.
Was this a happy addiction, as the old warhorse dragged out the wig and heels? Times, Sunday Times
A late rally dragged the index up to close at 18,560, still off more than 1,000 on the week.
The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
We both got dragged of to the headmistress, but I swear from that day on she never bothered me again and nor did anyone else.
As the summer-long clash over the U.S. debt ceiling dragged on, Mr. Trennert, 43 years old, became persuaded that the process for setting budget policy in Washington had broken at a crucial moment for the economy. Pivot Point: Investors Lose Faith in Stocks
In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes.
The rain teemed down as the summer monsoon dragged on and the locals claimed they hadn't seen the like for years.
No, it had been rather haphazardly portioned with seemingly no utensil involved; an oozing brown viscosity trailing its ragged, blackened, peel. Snap
My younger sister holds to that tradition, but my older sister's boys are too old to be dragged anywhere by a women who is their mom.
Further into the night we encountered a ragged group of wounded. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
He bragged that the course which he claimed to be one of the best in the country, was in good shape and no excuse would be given by any golfer for failing to perform well.
After every test, all drives were defragged and the system was rebooted.
The Eladeldi had dragged her from the steps into an alley, shoved her against a wall and searched her.
Taken over a five-year period, the Irish pension funds have yielded an average return of just 1.1%, dragged down by the shake-out that started in the Nasdaq in 2000 when the high-tech bubble finally burst.
At that moment, Nosair and Abouhalima may have had an epiphany: back home in Egypt, suspected terrorists are dragged in and tortured. The Road To September 11
My first night there my friend dragged me to a party in one of the nearby dorms.
By what right did this ragged beachcomber, in dungaree trousers and a cotton shirt, suggest such a thing as peace and content to him and his overwrought, exhausted soul? THE SEED OF McCOY
Despite their squalid hovels and ragged clothes, Arthur Young reported that the poor of Ireland were ‘as athletic in their form, as robust, and as capable of enduring labour as any upon earth’.
Oh, yes, it was a full man's job, and I dosed and doctored, and pulled teeth, and dragged my patients through mild little things like ptomaine poisoning. Chapter 32
Mr. Follo said that the decision wouldn't be "dragged out very much longer," but urged everyone to be patient; Robinson emphasized the need for a "frictionless" reader experience regardless of what approach The Times takes. Times Professes 'Distinctly Successful' Relationship With Google, Unlike 'Some Competitors'
If the time had dragged this would have been a hard job, unremitting and tedious.
The London Stock Exchange was dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
text set with ragged right margins
She tensed as strong arms dragged her roughly from the vehicle, and deposited her on the freezing floor.
A policeman caught hold of him and dragged him over the fence to safety, leaving him with nothing more serious than bruises.
I dragged him outside and started shutting all the doors and windows - He just looked at me horrified and made a mad dash back inside.
She grabbed the boy and dragged him away.
In Huang's letter, he recounted how he was dragged into this matter.
Just now the skies are busy with birds; rooks and crows grouping and re-grouping in ragged formation, starlings showing off their flock skills, and swifts silver-arrowing round and round.
Dry air drawn into the top of a thunderstorm is cooled and dragged down in showers of hail and rain. Times, Sunday Times
When we finally dragged the hulking thing home, all we could do was saw it in half and just stand in awe, gawking at the horror within.
As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain. Guanajuato restaurants
In the corridor were four dirty, ragged bundles, just identifiable as human beings.
The most recent shows have - to varying degrees - dragged various nobodies kicking and screaming into the limelight for our pleasure.
Kayla's scarf dragged along the sidewalk as she walked.
A few hours later, after having been dragged out of the hotel at gunpoint, my worst nightmare had come true.
Finally, the night was drawing to an end and I was dragged up the front along with all the other unmarried spinsters - against my protests - to try and catch the bouquet.
We dragged our kayaks down the slipway in to the water and got in.
Anthony Curio bragged the whole way how he’d taken Suzy Micheli to the drive-in only he always called the drive-in the submarine races the night before, popping her cherry on the vinyl seat Jimmy and I were sitting on. Kings of Colorado
` ` I'll not flurr myself, '' he said, crunching his ragged hat in his hands, -- ` ` I'll not. '' Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day
Hereupon in came the old woman and dragged my brother by his feet to a souterrain and threw him down upon a heap of dead bodies. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The actors dragged on a boat with wheels.
The shy emerald mantles the valleys and fledges the heights; the pussy-willows tremble by lake and stream; the wild crocus brims the hollows with a haze of violet; trailing his last ragged pennants of snow on the hills, winter makes his sullen retreat. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
Their ragged shifts and kirtles, soaked through with the drizzling rain, hung dankly on their emaciated forms.
Hammocks could not be slung in tents as small as hers, so a thin lumpy mattress and a pillow of piassava fiber had been dragged into place - both, Fern-o informed her, the property of Luis Quental himself. River Of Desire
Kenji's tennis shoes dragged against the ground hopelessly.
After finding a magical hiding place, she is abruptly dragged back to reality. Times, Sunday Times
Dante blinked away the black spots flecking his vision, sucked in a ragged breath. Etched in Bone
The lights dimmed and a raggedy band assembled onstage.
Along with illuminating the critters, they make it easer to see the edge of ragged Colorado roads, and can be handy for setting up camp.
Left alignment ensures all text is flush with left margin and ragged on the right margin.
A constant-sized population is expected to show a ragged, multimodal distribution, while an expanding population shows a smooth, unimodal distribution.
He dragged on the reins and drew the buggy around, flaying the horse with his whip.
Those with T-shirts or posters were dragged out and put onto trucks and driven off. Times, Sunday Times
In the novel, scenes of daily hardship alternate with those of stronger historical forces colliding: officers of the secret police rounding up suspected counter-revolutionaries as the city's inhabitants starve; ragged soldiers fighting without adequate ammunition or food; officials studying the files of suspects and reading anonymous denunciations through the night in the only heated building in the city; ambitious party bureaucrats eliminating their enemies; idealistic revolutionaries explaining away gross injustices as "historical necessity. The Revolutionary Novelist
What's more, he had bragged while in prison about having a stash of money buried near Bowden, and it's possible someone killed his family while trying to get at it.
Did well but he was dragged out of position at times. The Sun
She dragged herself out of bed, still half asleep.

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