in rags
Example Sentences
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Some are hobbling on makeshift crutches, or hopping, their injured legs wrapped in rags.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
“Weird Barbie could have been in rags or in a crazy costume that was just pieces of things put together,” Durran says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
In the winter of ’76, after a string of disastrous defeats, I trudged through the snow with the Continental Army, in shoes wrapped in rags, leaving bloody footprints behind.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
One winter day in 1990, he was walking through Central Park when he encountered a man dressed in rags, whom he took for “a bum like me,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
At first the nesting killdeer screeched and whistled in alarm, flying frantically in all directions and repeatedly dive-bombing the mad sheepherder dressed in rags, who paid them no mind.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
