ragbag

Example Sentences

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Twenty-one more runs had been scored via three boundaries and a ragbag of extras when that wicket fell but Came's dismissal slowed the scoring rate.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

The pages that constitute “Anna Livia Plurabelle” are surely the most easily decipherable in that masterly and monstrous ragbag of a book.

From New York Times • May 14, 2019

A ragbag of humans almost crashes into you.

From Economist • Sep. 21, 2017

How did a ragbag of colleges become a towering assemblage of world-class universities?

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017

The kids wore these clothes until they fell to bits, and then the bits were washed and returned to the cabin, for the ragbag.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder