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Example sentences for: rags

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

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.
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.
In the old days, all paper was made of cotton rags, hence the name.
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.