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
I’m just going to wash up on shore from the water, in rags.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
With one shoe on and one shoe off, his clothes in rags, and his body streaked with oil, Alex knew he must look a strange sight.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
