ragtag

Example Sentences

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They entered the global stage as Yemen descended into civil war more than a decade ago when the ragtag militia fighters stormed Sanaa and ousted the government from most population centres.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

How this proudly low-budget effort managed to license those tunes is as curious as so much else in this ragtag oddity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Team USA wasn’t a ragtag group, but the nation’s very best, the product of generations of elite domestic development and the game’s widening geography.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Made on a modest budget, the film follows a ragtag group of final-year students at Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture as they drift, stall and inch toward graduation.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

At last report, the ragtag fleet they had assembled to rescue the free folk from Hard- home still huddled at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, confined to port by the rough seas.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin