ragged

He became delirious, his heartbeat grew ragged, his blood teemed with the virus, and his lungs, liver and kidneys began to fail.

The low crunch of packed dirt against rubber tire was overwhelmed by the ragged explosions of automatic gunfire.

We are sitting in a ragged park behind a McDonalds restaurant on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.

Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard awillingness to endure.

The final score flattered Brazil, which had looked ragged and complacent for much of the game.

But not too big for the ragged old arm that felled it down as an axe fells the last rings of a stricken tree.

A handkerchief, once red, with polka spots, contained a ragged flannel shirt and a stocking-heel tied with a piece of tape.

Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.

The girl looked round the ragged moor, brooding in the twilight, and half hesitated.

The spell was broken, and Mr. Carr took out his watch as he turned his eyes on a ragged urchin who had called to him from below.