ragtag

How To Use ragtag In A Sentence

• Rather oddly, the fireman sporting a handlebar moustache about to sip a saucer of hot cocoa is ignoring the fire ragtag behind him and turns his back on two colleagues who are tackling it.
• And then she was helped back over the side of the boat, to the cheers of the ragtag armada all around them. Crystal Rain
• Ragtag rebel militiamen cruised the streets in pickup trucks with mounted anti-aircraft guns, unloading random volleys into the sky whenever they thought they spotted government aircraft. Rebel Pledge: 'Die Here If We Must'
• An astronaut is sucked into a wormhole and ends up breaking out of prison and being ensconced on a living spaceship called Moya with the usual ragtag group of compatriots, many of them created by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop. Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set
• He is widely believed to have fueled the war in support of one of the fighting parties, to which he committed ragtag militias that perpetrated unspeakable atrocities.
• Last week when USA Today called the Occupiers a "ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others" hinting they're a flash-in-the-pan "devoid of remedies," I smiled, reminded of that famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas 1776, leading what historians also called a "ragtag" Continental Army, surprising the British, and winning the Battle of Trenton. MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
• There's much more to know, however, if your aim is higher than at a ragtag box of miscellaneous panfish.
• Donovan, who soon discovered his ragtag group was a long way from being fit for trench warfare, had his men run three miles each morning, then strip to the waist and fight one another barehanded to make them mean. Wild Bill Donovan
• It's an inspirational sports film about a group of ragtag student athletes egged on to greatness by their unconventional hard-ass coach.
• People are booing, and I don't even try to stop them as this ragtag of veteran-looking musicians play on.