Rags

Word RAGS
Character 4
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɹæɡz/

Definitions and meanings of "Rags"

What do we mean by rags?

(in the plural) Tattered clothes.

A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.

A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

A ragged edge in metalworking.

A sail, or any piece of canvas.

A newspaper, magazine.

A poor, low-ranking kicker.

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The word "rags" in example sentences

It portrays two children in rags, on the outskirts of a prosperous village: cast out and unprovided-for, the blind girl and her sister wander the British countryside, playing music for pennies. ❋ Jonathan Jones (2010)

The nice thing about the Tuxtla rags is that you do not need to read Spanish to enjoy them what with the front pages featuring ghastly traffic accidents or gruesome murders and the back pages with daily photos of exposed female buttocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though they sleep on the streets, sell trinkets for money, and dress in rags, the children haven't given up on life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I find those in rags like penthouse are intellectually challenged and more so for those that pick it up! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Warden, the young wife of John Van Warden, clad in rags, with marred and scarred and toil-calloused hands, bending over the campfire and doing scullion work-she, Vesta, who had been born to the purple to greatest baronage of wealth the world has ever known. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Let them sweat it out in rags and dine on $1.00 a day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My God! and I was hungry and in rags, he thought to himself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is dressed in rags, reeks of booze, has no money, and his friend is a fellow hobo. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Children, half clothed in rags, play hopscotch next to a mysterious gray liquid that has gathered in stagnant puddles weeks after the last rainfall. ❋ AP (2010)

Others, too, that dress in rags or 'nothing' are sick of it too .... no matter what they say .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

His rough clothes were in rags, and the black, bruised flesh of his feet showed through the remnants of his moccasins. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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