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Example sentences for: rags

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gone--that God, in His Mercy, had pulled their sick hearts out, bled them, drained them, kissed the dead weight from the bones, that I was looking at myself in rags that were my parents--when I think of them I think of my friend with no one there those hours, no one to witness, no one to take his pulse, no one to talk or listen, no one to cross his heart.
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.
Episcopalians, Lutherans, and some Methodists have rediscovered rituals, ornaments, and clerical vestments (the "rags of popery" of Protestant polemic) discarded during the Reformation.
Here is just a sample: v Catch a Falling Star v Chain Gang v Cry v Heart and Soul v Love is a Many Splendored Thing v Moments to Remember v No Not Much v Rags to Riches v Sixteen Tons v Three Coins in the Fountain