Example sentences for: ragged

How can you use “ragged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The city of Edinburgh grew up around the steep, ragged cliff of the Castle Rock and its easily defended summit.

  • Beyond the town, in a sudden confrontation with the wilderness, a walkway in the forest takes you up close to the pounding waters of the 80-m (240-ft) Ste-Anne Falls, ragged and crashing around the boulders, a much less neat and tidy cascade than Montmorency.

  • Captain Arthur Knowles and his First Mate Harold Sherman used a neat expression for the sky when a cool northwesterly breeze swept over the bay clearing out every vestige of cloud except those low to the southeast, where the warm water of the Gulf Stream condensed as a ragged range of billowy clouds.

  • Gomori trichrome stain revealed ragged red fibers (Figure 1).

  • Many parents would recoil in horror at being considered fashion victims with regard to names, but when your children ( Marcus and Titus ) are in school with Tacitus and Rufus and Dædalus you can be consoled by the fact that in the school down the road, the children of Danii and Du'aine ( Gluteus and Mucus ) are being mercilessly ragged by Tahini and Pooh, themselves the children of Elvis and Moonbeam.


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