scrag

Example Sentences

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After all, eggs hatched at 40 plus, like mine, represent the scrag end of the market.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2014

The expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Don't scrag honest civil servants or good clergymen on sight.

From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Clarice was inwardly convinced that Vivian belonged to the scrag end, so far as character went.

From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah

But they collared Mr. Scarlett, and was in a fair way to scrag ’im, if Justice hadn’t intervened.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)