How to use rag in a sentence

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• The rag bagger has a deck lined with gas cans and bicycles.From the entry rag bagger
• Like Cinderella, the girl in rags was swept off her feet by a handsome Prince Charming.From the entry in rags
• We need to defibrate the rags before we can make paper.From the entry defibrate
• Simply mentioning the word "nationalism" to him is like a red rag to a bull.From the entry red rag to a bull
• He should not have used that old dirty rag. Look how it scraped up his paint job.From the entry scrape up
• The students were out raising funds for rag week.From the entry student
• The street was full of wretched beggars dressed in rags.From the entry wretched
• The rag bagger offloaded his vessel in the rain.From the entry rag bagger
• The tornado flung the man around like a rag doll.From the entry rag doll
• His wife was asking where their savings account balance had gone, but the way he put it was that his old lady was ragging him about his pay rate.From the entry old lady
• Rag paper sounds like something cheap, but in fact, it’s quite the opposite.2017, J.P. Romney, Rebecca Romney, Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories of Books History, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry rag paper
• The toxic smell poured from the rag held over his face, a familiar odor—metopryl.2016, Steve Bradshaw, Evil Like Me. From the entry metopryl
• I pulled at the jumpsuit's rags, stuck to my skin like tails mispinned on a donkey.2015, Dale Peck, The Garden of Lost and Found. From the entry mispin
• From another room a door skreeked open, and Lucille returned with a rag and icky pillow.2014, D. Foy, Made to Break: A Novel, Columbus, O.H.: Two Dollar Radio, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry skreek
• There wasn’t any call for them to rag on him now.2013, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Yellowstone Scoundrel. From the entry rag on
• Many were in rags, and not a few had their bodies covered with most offensive sores.2012, Hans Derks, History of the Opium Problem. From the entry plighty
• They had the smell of an oily rag to work on.2010, Gai Waterhouse, Gai In My Words, page 146. From the entry smell of an oily rag
• Horses and carts are never seen now and the rag and bone man is no more.2009 November 24, David Fowler, NATIONAL SERVICE, ELVIS and ME!, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry rag-and-bone man
• We are all in rags now but we did him proud.2009, Sheila Hancock -, The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw. From the entry do someone proud
• "We did it on the smell of an oily rag", says Danielle Kootman of Tourism Queensland.2009 May 1, Nick Bryant, “'Selling' Queensland with a dream job”, in BBC News. From the entry smell of an oily rag
• We were dressed in dirty, blingless rags of sin, yet Jesus traded places with us.2009, Rhonda Rhea, Whatsoever Things Are Lovely. From the entry blingless
• She has threaded rags through her hair, tying it in two Pippi Longstocking braids.2009, Rachel Shteir, Gypsy: the Art of the Tease, Yale University Press, page 140. From the entry Pippi Longstocking
• I should have expected Nifonging by liberal rags such as the Herald-Sun.2007 July 28, Dave Highlands, “WE MUST NOT TOLERATE THIS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS”, in St. Petersburg Times. From the entry Nifong
• Are you just trying to rag the puck and kill time until the new Sonatas arrive?2004 September 30, Michael Vaughan, “Five Questions for President, CEO Hyundai Canada”, in Globe and Mail, Toronto, retrieved 12 May 2008. From the entry rag the puck
• Scandal rags rip that reinforcement and deliriously deconstruct and deidolize the idols who ignore you.1999, James Ellroy, Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.. From the entry deidolize
• In the corner next to the oven was a huge heap of black rags covering the couch.1998, Gioia Timpanelli, “Rusina, Not Quite in Love”, Sometimes the Soul, Two Novellas of Sicily, W. W. Norton & Company (Sicily), page 131. From the entry patchery
• BADENHORST goes to his bed and gets a tin of shoepolish and a rag.1993, Anthony Akerman, “Somewhere on the Border”, in Stephen Gray, editor, South Africa Plays, London: Nick Hern Books; Houghton, South…. From the entry shoepolish
• I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.1983, The Big Chill. From the entry jump

Meaning of rag

1. noun Tattered clothes (clothing).
2. noun A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
3. noun A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.

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Questions about rag in a sentence

How do you use rag in a sentence?

Rag is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It's semiformal. I can't show up dressed in rags!”

What is a short sentence with rag?

“rags to riches”

What does rag mean?

Rag means tattered clothes (clothing).