ragged edge
Example Sentences
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The last few years I've been off balance, right on the ragged edge of my technique where that if I have to push a little bit more, I lose it.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
I remember thinking, I’m like on the ragged edge of sanity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
In her gouache drawings every watery bloom and ragged edge helps to strengthen the composition, build the space.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
Yet she was born in Oklahoma, where her family, as she put it, was “on the ragged edge of the middle class … kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2019
She couldn’t keep the ragged edge from her voice when she added, “Don’t you think so too?”
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
