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
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
“I saw her in front of me, clothed in rags, her face thin and worn,” Anne wrote.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
George and my sisters no longer went about in rags; we now could even afford a Christmas tree.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
