in rags
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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
In nearby tents, children in rags dozed on their mother’s laps, while other parents prepared madeeda hilba, a thick porridge, and grilled small grasshoppers in the 100-degree heat.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
I’d forgotten how they looked—torn by brambles, stained and faded to the color of earth and moss, fluttering in rags and tatters.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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