in rags
Example Sentences
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“Weird Barbie could have been in rags or in a crazy costume that was just pieces of things put together,” Durran says.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 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
In another image, near the recently bombed village of Sakiet in Tunisia, an Algerian refugee nurses her newborn, the pair dressed in rags.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022
He dined on roots, berries, and seaweed, hunted game with spears and snares, dressed in rags, endured the bitter winters.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
