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Federer on Tuesday stopped short of criticizing Verdasco — acknowledging that nerves can become ragged in competition — but he did stress the need to respect ball kids.

From Reuters ● Oct. 9, 2018

Then after a while longer, when it has become ragged and worn, it gets loose in the skin and drops out—as I am sorry to say some of my hair is doing already.

From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

This margin is naturally adherent to the surface of the nail, and has a tendency to grow forward with it and become ragged and attenuated.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke

It wouldn’t take very long in there for it to become ragged and go to pieces.

From The Dragon's Secret by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea

Mr B.—Then if your clothes should wear out and become ragged, every gentleman will have a right to command you?

From The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day


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