rags

Example Sentences

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Swift opens her track with: “When I found you, you were young, wayward, lost in the cold / Pulled up to you in the Jag’, turned your rags to gold.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

We say that the “Cinderella” story is rags to riches, but in all versions, especially the European ones, she is a noble girl put into the kitchen by her wicked stepmother.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

The Bill Gates origin story isn't rags to riches.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025

And then she will dry her eyes, fish out a few glad rags, throw on a little makeup and get a blowout..

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

Half its windows seemed to have been broken and replaced with rags.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom