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Example sentences for: rags

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The American cult of celebrity has flourished since Walter Winchell, and the tabs have been thriving since the early '70s--but it's only in the last few years that other journalists have taken the supermarket rags seriously.
Critics savaged his tabloids--the New York Post , the Boston Herald , the Chicago Sun-Times (he no longer owns the latter two)--as grotesque conservative rags.
A boy in rags notices her rather bony legs, so he levels her with Hi girl, you ain' 'fraid hungry dog see you?
And with notes of pride, those rags that have earned pejorative names in the local lore use those sobriquets in private correspondence, saloon chat, and unofficial résumés.
Moreover, behind the glossy covers and stilted prose, many of these little journals function as the gossip rags, the People magazines, for the science niches.