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Example sentences for: rags

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Mussalchee `torchbearer' combines mussal `torch, usually of oilsoaked rags,' adapted from Hindi masal or mashal , the Hindi version of Arabic mash'al , and Turkic - ci (or chi, ji ), a suffix denoting an agent.
A boy in rags notices her rather bony legs, so he levels her with Hi girl, you ain' 'fraid hungry dog see you?
The Times has steadily lost its place among the great rags, thanks mainly to the laughingstock way in which it has has been "reinvented."
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.
In the old days, all paper was made of cotton rags, hence the name.