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
This keeps the paint from tearing and creating a ragged edge.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2020
Yet she was born in Oklahoma, where her family, as she put it, was “on the ragged edge of the middle class … kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2019
He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
