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 man was all alone in the night—a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut