in rags
Example Sentences
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Some are hobbling on makeshift crutches, or hopping, their injured legs wrapped in rags.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024
In the winter of ’76, after a string of disastrous defeats, I trudged through the snow with the Continental Army, in shoes wrapped in rags, leaving bloody footprints behind.
From Washington Times • Jul. 2, 2023
One winter day in 1990, he was walking through Central Park when he encountered a man dressed in rags, whom he took for “a bum like me,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2023
A lot of post-apocalyptic dramas are set in a world that looks like our own, only with the buildings reduced to rubble and the people clad in rags.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022
This poor Sufi dressed in rags walked into a jewelry store owned by a rich merchant and asked him, “Do you know how you’re going to die?”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
