ragamuffin

Example Sentences

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How this riff-drunk ragamuffin, who turns 82 on Dec. 18, not only survived but stayed relevant is a mystery, a puzzle wrapped inside a guitar string.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

To some, he was a rollicking drifter in ragamuffin punk tatters.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

It was the late 1970s, punk was sliding into new wave, and Leonard and her friends, including the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, were, by Leonard’s account, “wild little ragamuffin children.”

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

A ragamuffin looking for a meal, Eurydice receives instead a feast of affection that includes a proposition of marriage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2022

Occasionally some ragamuffin troupe would mum a play on a street corner or I’d hear a fiddler in a pub.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss