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Example sentences from the Web for ragsIn Ireland, the name of Sean Quinn will be forever linked in the public mind as the ultimate cautionary tale of riches to rags. The Zillionaires Who Lost Everything|Tom Sykes|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST For every story of rags to riches, there is another of riches to rags. The Zillionaires Who Lost Everything|Tom Sykes|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST A man, dressed in rags, stalks across the field, impaling the bodies with a bayonet. ‘Turn,’ AMC’s New Series About America’s First Spy Ring, Is A Visually Arresting Historical Epic|Marlow Stern|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST Dressed in rags, a man and woman stand ankle-deep in a swamp. Django Unchained’s Bloody Real History in Mississippi|Adam Rothman|February 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
How tiresome a reverse fashion show the movie provided in rags, carbuncles, gimpy legs, and bad teeth? Why All the Hate for Les Mis?|Megan McArdle|January 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST Charley shook her head as she methodically drew his rags about him and made him as warm as she could. Bleak House|Charles Dickens I had a lot of rags specially sent to me from Paris, as I wished to see the difference between the soft and the stiff muslin. A Treatise on Etching|Maxime Lalanne They were from ten to fifty years of age; some were dressed decently, and others were in rags. The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin. The trappings of the rich, the rags of the poor, were nothing to Him. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 04|Various Boy, you got to stand dere en wait till your mamma come home cause I can' find none your rags. Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1|Various
SEE SYNONYMS FOR rags ON THESAURUS.COM
pl ntorn, old, or shabby clothing cotton or linen cloth waste used in the manufacture of rag paper from rags to riches informal - from poverty to great wealth
- (as modifier)a rags-to-riches tale
glad rags informal best clothes; finery Words nearby ragsragout, rag paper, ragpicker, rag-rolling, rag rug, rags, ragstone, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, ragtime, ragtop Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to ragsduds, tatters, scraps |