in rags
Example Sentences
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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
A lot of post-apocalyptic dramas are set in a world that looks like our own, only with the buildings reduced to rubble and the people clad in rags.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
In another image, near the recently bombed village of Sakiet in Tunisia, an Algerian refugee nurses her newborn, the pair dressed in rags.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
He had no shoes at all and his feet were wrapped in rags and cardboard tied with green twine and any number of layers of vile clothing showed through the tears and holes in it.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
