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Meanings of rags in English
Usage of rags in English
1
Their clothes were bubbling in the hot spring in rags and tatters.
2
I found it in the rags; blue Egyptians, you know, Mr. Gregory.
3
The stocks of many of the rifles were wrapped in dirty rags.
4
Potatoes were cooked in the same manner and often without the rags.
5
It is the only momentous fact; all others are chaff and rags.
6
She had good, sharp stakes hidden in her rags, easy to grab.
7
Buckets and rags were easy to locate, as were plain paper towels.
8
A smell of scorched rags and festering wounds hung in the air.
9
No rags are employed in the cleaning of plates and other dishes.
10
The man in rags had continued a grim spectator of the scene.
11
He saw me dying a prisoner in jail, starved and in rags.
12
Aprons were not the only red rags to the bull of ceremony.
13
The child was dressed in filthy rags and presented a shocking appearance.
14
They are the fathers of the Council of Nicæa, in rags, abject.
15
There were sheets of thick paper on every surface and inky rags.
16
I made them of the nicest rags, and braided them in stripes.
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Rags across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common