in rags
Example Sentences
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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
One winter day in 1990, he was walking through Central Park when he encountered a man dressed in rags, whom he took for “a bum like me,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2023
“I saw her in front of me, clothed in rags, her face thin and worn,” Anne wrote.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
A lot of post-apocalyptic dramas are set in a world that looks like our own, only with the buildings reduced to rubble and the people clad in rags.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022
When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to sniveling tears.
From "1984" by George Orwell
