How to Use ragged in a Sentence

ragged

adjective

• You look a little ragged—did you have a rough week?
• The ragged trees of my youth, up on the hills, looked like ghosts.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• This may be the function of the owl wing’s ragged fringes.
  — Dana MacKenzie, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020
• The ragged ends of two thick limbs jutted from the trunk.
  — Ted Gregory, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Press to seal, trim any ragged edges, and crimp edges with tines of fork.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022
• What cowardice has caused you to retreat from the ragged heart of the desert?
  — Mila Koumpilova, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• Their ragged edges streaked with black dirt stare at him.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The ragged scar running throat to navel, from his open-heart surgery.
  — oregonlive.com, 16 June 2019
• The truth is no longer sought in the ragged howls of the blues or the verses of the Bible, but in a tank of gas and a rearview mirror.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• In the distance, rising against the stars, was a ragged range of mountains.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
• The sculptures on the screen were arranged beneath a string of flags made ragged by the wind.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• The nail on my right hand, the ragged ending to a difficult day.
  — Mary Jo Bang, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Smooth edges will heal better than the ragged edges left from the deer rubbing.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• Cut this selection to the ground in spring to get rid of the ragged growth left from winter.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 30 June 2023
• So the ragged layers in these paintings can be seen as skin.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Be sure to tear the meat off the bone into thick, ragged hunks to better sop up the dressing.
  — Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• Even the females sported this ragged look, but in warm brown.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• Truth be told, that DID lead to a couple of rather ragged endings.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2020
• He is left there in the hallway to recover, like a ragged doll of a wet fish.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 26 Jan. 2023
• Kagalula had to restart his life from scratch and now lives in a ragged straw hut.
  — Alec Jacobson, National Geographic, 3 May 2019
• The ragged assembly smelled of sweat, camp smoke and weeks of combat.
  — Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• Has this ragged brick chapel on Salt Lake City’s west side run out of useful lives?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Jan. 2021
• These men and women have been run ragged and are still running strong.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2021
• Buckskin Gulch is a gnarly rip in the desert that cuts a ragged path along the Utah-Arizona border.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
• Sunday’s matinee got off to a ragged start as the teams combined to make just one of 10 shots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2021
• Keep an eye out for holes and ragged edges in brassica leaves.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• This keeps the paint from tearing and creating a ragged edge.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 June 2020
• The retablos are framed in webbing made from the same ragged material that forms the body of the snake.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• She’s never given a ragged performance like this, but the dour movie is a tough sit.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
• Chief among them was the decision to lean toward a ragged, high-energy sound rather than precision.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024