How To Use Ragtag In A Sentence
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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.
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And then she was helped back over the side of the boat, to the cheers of the ragtag armada all around them.
Crystal Rain
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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'
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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
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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.
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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.
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There's much more to know, however, if your aim is higher than at a ragtag box of miscellaneous panfish.
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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
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It's an inspirational sports film about a group of ragtag student athletes egged on to greatness by their unconventional hard-ass coach.
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People are booing, and I don't even try to stop them as this ragtag of veteran-looking musicians play on.
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Your eyes do not deceive you: Those are leather shin guards, and she is obviously the lead in a local burlesque show entitled "Buffy The Vampire Player," about a ragtag ream of rebels that vanquishes the undead through intense field-hockey games.
GoFugYourself
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Have you heard about the new national political organization called a ragtag collection of journalists, pundits, and politicians who claim they support civility in campaigning and bipartisanship in government.
Crooks and Liars
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At the last election, the Lib Dems were the ‘none of the above’ party - a depository of ragtag protest votes which translated into 16 more seats.
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This "ragtag" country should be long gone by now, but isn't??
Obama: Bush and McCain 'have a lot to answer for'
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As our ragtag troupe passed the cafeteria in the West Mall Centre we chanced upon a stack of trays.
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It's a myth that goes back to the revolution and the triumph of America's ragtag guerrillas against the rigid, hierarchical British army.
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Instead, he cursed, caroused and shocked moviegoers as the hard-drinking reprobate coach and player for a ragtag hockey team in 1977's Slap Shot, one of the rowdiest, crudest, funniest and most scathingly honest sports comedies ever.
Paul Newman: A rare breed
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He arrived with a ragtag collection of friends.
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There was no word about the 12-year-old twins who lead this ragtag army of around 100 mostly ethnic Karen fighters.
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People are booing, and I don't even try to stop them as this ragtag of veteran-looking musicians play on.
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Capturing Kabul through proxy war in 1997 while a ragtag freemasonry of Mujahideen was defending Kabul was one thing.
Bloggers.Pakistan
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Governments, international agencies and private charities have begun to train the region's ragtag health care corps to treat children in a model that could spread throughout Africa.
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Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song, it's about a ragtag gang of ne'er-do-well schoolboys who gain self-respect under the wing of a kindly choirmaster.
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In more prosaic moments she comments on a ragtag of fellow travellers, landlords and farmers, and lorry drivers who don't know the country code of how to pass horses on the road.
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I always thought the word ragtag best applied to the Mahdi Army.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
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In an attempt to come up with the cash, they formulate a plan to rob a ragtag gang of criminals who are planning a heist.
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Since its debut as a ragtag protest group, the Tea Party has cohered into a formidable voice in the GOP primaries.
Tea Party 3.0 in Colorado
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This was the case when the US, the UK, and a ragtag of minor allies invaded the country in March.
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They were not only providing logistics in conventional war tactics, but participated in its execution, hence the Kabila forces 'edge over the ragtag Zairean government soldiers," said one diplomat.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The results suggested a ragtag yard sale, but for the handwritten notes explaining why each object was so precious to the possessor.
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But as we cruised breezily down the car-free streets, meeting up with other wheeled university contingents, a kind of ragtag mass euphoria built with each addition to the ranks.
MAY 10 DEMO OF TEN THOUSAND BICYCLES
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The rebel starship, the Theodore Roosevelt, under the command of Wilson Cole, is preparing to lead Cole's ragtag armada into the Republic, even though he is outnumbered thousands to one.
Books in the Mail (W/E 09/20/2009)
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Adding to the fun is a bit of inspired genre-hopping marked by the entrance of Frank's neighbours, a trio of misfits that form a kind of ragtag support group for him.
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How would this ragtag bunch of different machines play together?
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We think of Washington at Valley Forge, or we think of Washington with his ragtag band of militia men beating the British.
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A zany, ragtag band of men from my old stomping grounds of Upstate New York decided to buy themselves a racehorse on Memorial Day weekend of 1995.
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The goblins of the title sport casual, ragtag outfits.
The Kids Are All Right
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Our ragtag party of seven probably didn't look very hip sitting at the long centre table, oohing and aahing at the surroundings.
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Where are the serious people who can displace this flea-bitten ragtag circus of charlatans, illiterates, hucksters, kooks, and dumbells?
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A small, ragtag band of idealists facing overwhelming odds decides to gamble on a course of action judged either foolish or brilliant, depending on the outcome.
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And in the end we get to see a really ugly picture of her character as a band of ragtag misfits dethrone the queen on her way to winning the hottest sorority contest with FHM magazine.
Last Night’s Entertainment: National Lampoon movies
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The people I have known have been a scruffy lot, a ragtag of mongrels from all over the place, but I would not change them for the world.
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[Del Spier] brokered a deal with Afghanistan's fledgling Ministry of Interior, which agreed to loan USPI hundreds of its troops -- a coterie of ragtag militiamen under the command of a notorious warlord named General Din Mohammad Jurat.
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein: Afghanistan Contractor: "We Were Warlords Over There"
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He told us that first day that the Soviets couldn't take Tora Bora with 10,000 fighters — what made us think that we could do it with a handful of Delta fighters and his basic ragtag mujahedin?
Going After Bin Laden
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By his sophomore year, Burt had secured some low-grade sponsorships while competing on a ragtag racing circuit that would, in 1987, coalesce into a bona fide World Cup series.
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By contrast, the Galactica has to drag along a ragtag fugitive fleet where most of the people live in boxcars.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Although a far from usual setting for a comedy series, the inmates were not too problematic or insane but merely a ragtag of eccentrics who had opted out of life.
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It started out as just a handful of protesters near Wall Street - the sort of demonstration folks describe as "ragtag"... "disorganized.
Breaking News: CBS News
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Everyone defers to him, especially his main man, a clubfooted ghetto intellectual known as Smush, and the other members of Smush's ragtag crew.
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The ragtag Republican forces, resisting him in their forlorn fight against fascism, had encircled the town.
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Slowly, they emerge out of a cloud of dust, like a weary ragtag army retreating from battle, a column of guests hauling enormous suitcases and mewling children.
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Our job in 2003 is to first make and then keep this disparate ragtag of a Government honest.
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The village was guarded by a ragtag group of soldiers.
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Now, from the left, comes a ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others who've taken to the streets in protests dubbed "Occupy Wall Street.
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Before the strike in the Hallelujah the group calling themselves Rock City had been working Kaiser Wilhelm node behind Ceres in orbit; at the good news they moved, speeding up a trifle and passing in-orbit of Ceres, a ragtag caravan nudged through the sky by scooters, chemical rocket engines, jato units, and faith.
The Rolling Stones
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Rather than pout, she joined an unofficial, ragtag team that took on all comers.
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The village was guarded by a ragtag group of soldiers.
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They were ragtag adventurers, all on the road together for different reasons, as fate would have it.
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Verdi did write some music in Nabucco for the banda, that often ragtag group of local band players who demanded to play on stage in operas in many Italian cities in the 19th century.
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Our little ragtag bunch of kids made my friend's party a success by creating a fun experience.
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And there's a marvelous, almost throwaway moment where Shaun and his ragtag band of survivors meet up with another group who look, mysteriously, a great deal like Shaun's group.
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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.
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It was tempting to dismiss the demonstrators as a ragtag collection of belligerent misfits - and some of them were.
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She was come as a part of a delegation from her people; one of the ragtag nomadic bands that roam the mountains to the north and east.
Duet « A Fly in Amber
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Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song, it's about a ragtag gang of ne'er-do-well schoolboys who gain self-respect under the wing of a kindly choirmaster.
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He forsakes his ties to his homeside and personally betrays his ruthless ignorant leader/mentor and conspires with his ragtag group of renegades to somehow stop the bloodshed as the two sides engage in an epic clash.
Five Reasons Why You Should Go See How To Train Your Dragon THIS WEEKEND | /Film
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At the present time, I would say that the vast majority of rebel forces that have been deployed in what is commonly referred to as ‘Free Libya’ can be described as 'ragtag.'
Analysts: Libya Faces Possible Military Stalemate
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Thus begins a story of three generations of ragtag heroes fighting against the alien invasion.
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In November 1910, Francisco Madero, a young idealist from a wealthy family, supported by ragtag armies under Pancho Villa in the north and Zapata in the south, led a revolt against the Diaz administration.
Murder in Mexico: an English family during the Revolution
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While Sharpton insisted that his long-shot candidacy would prevail, his fledgling campaign looked a bit ragtag.
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Albums - if record labels even bothered to put them out - were just ragtag compilations of unrelated singles.
