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Meanings of rag in English
Portuguese
tabloide Spanish
periódico sensacionalista Synonyms
Examples for "jaw"
Examples for "jaw"
1
I could tell by the way his jaw started working double time.
2
But Brun's set jaw and hard look of determination left no doubt.
3
I really want to have a future my jaw hit the floor.
4
McAuliffe's words landed like a roundhouse right on the Clintons' collective jaw.
5
The set of her jaw told him everything Dougal needed to know.
1
Alexander's lecture will call for reform in Europe, not exit from Europe.
2
To be honest: An unheard voice in education:I lecture in higher education.
3
Professor Pumfrey's lecture will examine current concerns, promising practices and future trends.
4
And the final lecture reduces Thoreau's text to letters and silences, beginning:
5
The Soviet meets in the small lecture theatre of the old Polytechnic.
1
He said that Mr O'Malley's immediate public rebuke was unacceptable to him.
2
The South African government issued a swift rebuke and summoned US officials.
3
Democratic politicians also waded in to rebuke McCain's politicisation of the issue.
4
Obstinacy in error is often a rebuke to tremulous faith in God.
5
The music in the tones of the answer was a vocal rebuke.
1
As soon as you leave, she'll be free to scold me again.
2
Then the Queen began to scold the little lady, and to say:
3
I wondered why she didn't scold me for being gone so long.
4
Burtson conjured the words as a scold, but they emerged more plealike.
5
Now they have something really to scold us about; but never mind.
1
She inflicted reproof in the present without excluding hope in the future.
2
The latter seemed hurt by the reproof; but it left him thoughtful.
3
She looks at the intruder as much in reproof as in surprise.
4
Further accounts given in this chapter prove the injustice of the reproof.
5
He said this in gentle reproof of his spirited daughter; and then,-
1
On the crime sheet; up against a reprimand; on trial, in trouble.
2
The position of the Air Force was made clear in the reprimand:
3
An intense look from a leader, for example, could be a reprimand.
4
The Pentagon could have sought to further reprimand Petraeus under military law.
5
With forced resignation, he waited for the reprimand he knew would come.
1
She attempted to remonstrate; she spoke of the perils of the journey.
2
I almost stopped to remonstrate, but then wisely thought better of it.
3
Both players were seen to remonstrate with the referee after the match.
4
It is for the Holy Father to remonstrate, if he thinks best.
5
I only tell you this, in case you feel inclined to remonstrate.
1
Even attempts to chide Trump for insulting others come across as hollow.
2
And for once in her life his daughter did not chide him.
3
And then I chide myself-why do my thoughts always turn to Rupert?
4
He did it out of love and we must not chide him.
5
The river hurried on meanwhile, and seemed to chide at our delay.
1
Mickelson's fellow players did not exactly wait in line to berate him.
2
Pretend-berate people in public to see how your game is holding up.
3
Both images continued to yell at and berate him, moving closer still.
4
Brother started forward, stalking the king as Erius continued to berate Tobin.
5
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
1
We are both hard-working, well-organised teams who rarely trounce or get trounced.
2
But keep your grimy hands off my Rabelais, or I'll trounce you.
3
For if you do, I'll trounce you for it, do you hear?
4
Never again should we allow a comforting falsehood to trounce a painful truth.
5
I think they only ask me to play so they can trounce me.
1
Sounds fishy-butif it's so somebody ought to lambaste the old man.
2
The president used his campaign-style gathering to again lambaste the media.
3
Maybe we will call each other privately, quietly and lament, lambaste.
4
I'll lambaste dat coon when I gits him, so I will.
5
They lambaste impartially and with a certain Irish delight in doing the job thoroughly.
1
The US president took to Twitter to lambast bitcoin and its ilk.
2
Therefore it was surprising to hear Houllier lambast Steven Gerrard in the aftermath.
3
He got him down and started to lambast the Judas out of him.
4
Hallmark cards axes 106 jobs in New Zealand and Principals lambast ministry spending.
5
Critics lambast adventure literature for trumpeting colonialist white supremacy propaganda too.
1
I'll tell Mark to dress down a bit and it'll be fine.
2
I swallowed, hands shaking as I pushed her dress down her hips.
3
No matter what you choose to do I would say overall dress down.
4
In Paris, the elite traditionally used to dress down to fraternise.
5
She got up from the ground and smoothed her dress down.
1
There was a call down the deck, a knock at the door.
2
Afterwards, you call down to the spa for an invigorating body wrap.
3
Such a punishment James and John would call down on the Samaritans.
4
Did you call down Heaven's vengeance on the murderer in approved fashion?
5
It is a bad thing to call down a crisis in the night-time.
1
With the pack on our back we must bawl out: 'Liberty forever!'
2
Catching sight of the druggist in the crowd, he stopped to bawl out:
3
Then he began to bawl out as loudly as he could for help.
4
The fat man with the megaphone would bawl out, 'Hicky Bloo!'
5
My answer is to bawl out: 'I don't want to be a brave soldier.
1
Stauer was about to chew out his long-time friend, viciously.
2
Jamie Cloncurry was going to bite into Lizzie's neck, and chew out her jugular.
3
Remind me to chew out whoever left this mess.
4
You chew out Blonde for running off at the mouth, yet she didn't say anything dangerous to us.
5
Canfield spat chew out on the grated floor of the Pelican and shouted, "Lock and load Helljumpers!".
1
These he used to chew up dinners heavily dependent on seal meat.
2
With them out of the way we'll simply chew up the rest.
3
Also chance that rats will swim across and chew up the exhibits.
4
Longer commutes chew up time available for leading or contributing to community endeavours.
5
But you'll chew up a lot of power feeding that habit.
1
But maybe you and your old man have words now and again?
2
Ever before have words of love for me fallen from your lips?
3
We just didn't have words to label this form of discrimination.
4
Andy's father had wanted to go down to Bryn's house to have words.
5
Well, I shall have words if you don't answer the door.
1
Eric and I had been literally called on the carpet.
2
He didn't like being called on the carpet, or being accountable for his behavior.
3
I'm not going to be called on the carpet for giving you a sniffle.
4
Caird was called on the carpet by his boss.
5
Oppenheimer was called on the carpet.
1
This is a tactical error for which I'm immediately taken to task.
2
Then shall ye on that day be taken to task concerning pleasures.
3
It remains to be seen whether he's taken to task on this one.
4
I have been taken to task for not accepting Labour's civil union Bill.
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I am not accustomed to be taken to task so sharply.
Usage of rag in English
1
She dropped the rag when raised voices sounded from the main house.
2
Number Nine, voiced by Elijah Woods, leads the rag dolls to survival.
3
Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
4
Funny really, seeing as the rest of us was in rag order.
5
He pushed aside the rag, stared to the south for a moment.
6
That's a good idea, Gwen said, stomach tightening like a wrung rag.
7
And an American, a veteran of the rag-trade battlefields of New York.
8
It was exceptionally beautiful, silver ink embossed on thick handmade rag paper.
9
Others simply had tissue or bits of rag stuffed up their noses.
10
The man snatched the rag and began again to scrub the floor.
11
Emmet quickly called in five more operatives to monitor their rag-tag arrival.
12
Don't let your standards slip to the mediocrity of a regional rag.
13
Grease it well with a piece of butter tied in a rag.
14
The ship immediately felt the effect of even this rag of canvass.
15
The one is a red flag, the other is a fled rag.
16
The rest of her body remained like a rag on the rug.
About this term
Translations for rag
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
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Rag through the time
Rag across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common