raggedness

How To Use raggedness In A Sentence

• 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
• It was raggedness linked with raving and ruin, such as none there had looked at nor dreamed of.
• I could hear the raggedness of his breathing and, after a moment, I felt his warm tears on my shoulder.
• He objects, with some justification, to the raggedness of Shakespeare’s plays, the irrelevancies, the incredible plots, the exaggerated language: but what at bottom he probably most dislikes is a sort of exuberance, a tendency to takenot so much a pleasure as simply an interest in the actual process of life. Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
• She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness, and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist, turning the skin there to palest gold. The Shadow of the Torturer
• The patchy raggedness of the moult gave him a somewhat mangy appearance, but by the end of June he was smooth and as lean as a hungry wolf in his summer coat.
• The film had the conspicuous raggedness of a work hijacked by circumstance.
• 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 Volume 3 1643-1649
• The patchy raggedness of the moult gave him a somewhat mangy appearance, but by the end of June he was smooth and as lean as a hungry wolf in his summer coat.
• Yet for all its raggedness, this tree has an air of captivating beauty, especially when it's fragile blooms veil it in white mists