How to Use ragged in a Sentence

ragged

adjective

• You look a little ragged—did you have a rough week?
• The detainee’s clothes are often worn, soiled, ragged, and torn as a result of beatings.
  — Fox News, 15 Oct. 2019
• You’re on the ragged edge of the equipment and what the boat can actually handle.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2019
• Events and scenes are meaningful; rarely is there an extraneous or ragged thread.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• There were just a bunch of kids in bright clothes, pointing cameras at each other, shouting meme text in ragged unison.
  — Wired, 20 Sep. 2019
• Bass-blurts, ragged spikes of treble, a terrible crowdedness or crammedness in the midrange.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2019
• Only a few times, when the performers are spread far across the lengthy stage, do things feel a little musically ragged.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• The Spaniard ran Bratislava's left back ragged and gave Wolves an outlet, which is what was needed after a sluggish first half.
  — SI.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Afros had abounded within the town’s borders since that moment in ’05 when all the clippers and cutting hands began shaving ragged patches into heads.
  — Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• The Argentine was found wanting for both of Adama Traore's late strikes, being run ragged for the first and way out of position for the second.
  — SI.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• The disco ball stayed too, and the odd contrast of vintage glamour and grimly lit pharmacy wares, with the slightly ragged mirrored orb hanging over it all, struck almost everyone who walked in the door.
  — Emma Alpern, Curbed, 26 Oct. 2019
• City sealed the victory in the last minute of stoppage time, as Phil Foden slotted home to finish off a counter attack with the Croatian side looking ragged.
  — SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• Burton had preached that, after the apocalypse, Apollo would be the cradle of a new civilization, but now its splendor was ragged and Ozymandian.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• What are the links between his growing desperation and his increasingly ragged appearance—and what, besides straight-up misogyny, is behind his desire for Tiny to fail?
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Press to seal, trim any ragged edges, and crimp edges with tines of fork.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022
• Their ragged edges streaked with black dirt stare at him.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Their guitar work was scrappy and soulful and ragged and real and all those other underrated qualities that make for an exciting night of rock 'n' roll, the kind of night the Rolling Stones have always been so brilliant at delivering.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2024
• This beautifully dark, occasionally mournful double-album finds the quartet playing tracks from their first three LPs with the kind of ragged intensity that would soon become part of their past.
  — Ernesto Lechner, SPIN, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024