ragbag
Example Sentences
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Tonight, we’re a ragbag of people singing a ragbag of songs, remembering – or, in surprisingly plentiful cases, imagining – how it felt to be so full of hope.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2019
The pages that constitute “Anna Livia Plurabelle” are surely the most easily decipherable in that masterly and monstrous ragbag of a book.
From New York Times • May 14, 2019
A ragbag of humans almost crashes into you.
From Economist • Sep. 21, 2017
How did a ragbag of colleges become a towering assemblage of world-class universities?
From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017
The man was all alone in the night—a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.