ragged edge
Example Sentences
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The last few years I've been off balance, right on the ragged edge of my technique where that if I have to push a little bit more, I lose it.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2024
I remember thinking, I’m like on the ragged edge of sanity.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2023
Firefighters driving bulldozers straightened the ragged edge of a fire line that had been gouged out by firefighters to keep the Bootleg Fire from spreading further east, the firefighting command center said.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2021
In her Curtiss biplane, she sat out in front of the engine, as one spectator said, “On the ragged edge of nothing.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2019
Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe--so I decided to go east and learn the bond business.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
