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Example sentences for "rag"

Lexicographically close words:
rafting; raftmen; rafts; raftsman; raftsmen; raga; ragamuffin; ragamuffins; ragan; rage
  1. After immersion the article must be taken out and thoroughly rinsed in a number of waters (warm preferred), then dried with a soft rag or sawdust.

  2. Apply with a soft rag dipped in the paste, and finish with a clean cloth.

  3. Thoroughly clean the article from all grease and dirt (see polishing preparations, page 12), and apply with a soft rag or brush and polish with a chamois skin.

  4. Apply with a rag to the spot on which you wish to affix the label.

  5. Dissolve the glue in 3/4 quart of warm water, put in the lampblack and emery, stir till there are no lumps, then apply to the board with a woolen rag smoothly rolled.

  6. It was a crumpled rag to look at, from the outside.

  7. Every rag and stick cleared out," said Meilby triumphantly.

  8. She had a rag in her mouth, and her face was flushed from bending down.

  9. Why the night they shot us out of the Rag Tag Club.

  10. Pillar of the Criterion bar, President of the Rag Tag Club, baronet and detrimental--and all at twenty three.

  11. They are sometimes discovered in an absolute state of nudity, having parted with every rag in their possession in order to keep body and soul together through times when no work is to be had.

  12. She is in bed, a dirty red flannel rag is wrapped about her shoulders, and her one arm is in a sling.

  13. Then he drew a dirty rag from his pocket, and rubbed and rubbed it round his eyes till there was a white ring about them that looked like a pair of spectacles.

  14. The greasy rag made me gag and almost vomit.

  15. Here and there lay a sparse, grey, homemade rag rug.

  16. With a semblance of outward serenity I picked up a rag and returned to wipe off the wall.

  17. In the pocket of the coat I had on was a small piece of dirty rag that I had used some time before to clean a gun with.

  18. The rag had dropped out in the agitation of his mind.

  19. I had some awful narrow escapes, I tell you.

  20. I'd stack Si Klegg up against any man that ever wore gray, in any sort of a scrimmage he could put up, and I'm a better man than Si.

  21. Presently a bigger rag came out from the willows, in response to the backward movement of the long cat-brier, and crawled slowly back under the log and into camp.

  22. The latter, with his gunlock in one hand and a greasy rag in the other, looked at the tempting morsel, opened his mouth, and the deed was done.

  23. They saw the rag move straight toward the guardline, and pass under the log on which the sentry walked when he paced his beat across the branch.

  24. Dey git beat out of what dey does, anyway.

  25. Ole John Billinger, he had a bunch of dogs and he'd take after runaway niggers.

  26. Charcoal and onions and honey for de li'l baby am good, and camphor for de chills and fever and teeth cuttin'.

  27. We didn' have to have a pass but on other plantations dey did, or de paddlerollers would git you and whip you.

  28. Us pull de long, leaf grass and plait it and us make rag doll and playhouse and grapevine swing.

  29. You see, the Mexkins carry loads on their heads, but they fix a rag around their heads some way to help balance it.

  30. After she first die her husband put black dress on her and tie up the jaw with a rag and my girl look in the room and there that old lady, Liza Lee, sittin' by the fire.

  31. Whereupon ye soul of ye humiliated Rag sinketh into hys bootes, and he retireth for ever under a perpetual extinguisher.

  32. Shows the way in which Rag tries to désillusioñer Carry on Bobtail, and in which Bobtail tries to ditto ditto on Rag Carry being on this side of the rivals is not represented.

  33. Vide: The ingenious use which Rag makes of Bobtail's pliable hat.

  34. You cannot conceive the horrible sights we see, particularly children; perfect skeletons in many cases, their bones through their skin, without a rag of clothing, and utterly unlike human creatures.

  35. Dicky, bruised, frightened and flung like a rag this way and that, at last made shift to grasp a post, and climb up on the bar counter.

  36. His costume consisted of a small piece of dirty rag round his loins; and whenever we were going through dense undergrowth, or wading a swamp, he wore that filament tucked up scandalously short.

  37. It was an old cotton rag of hers lying about.

  38. I should be very grateful,” Alyosha interrupted suddenly, “if you could give me a clean rag to bind up my finger with.

  39. I’d marked it long before and put a rag and a piece of paper ready in it.

  40. I believe it was in that very rag I sewed them.

  41. I wrapped all the notes in the rag and stuffed it deep down in the hole.

  42. First he wetted his own head, then, finding a rag of some sort, dipped it into the water, and put it on Lyagavy’s head.

  43. It was an old rag, I tell you, an old rag not worth a farthing.

  44. I don’t know where I got the rag from—somewhere, I suppose.

  45. Every rag upon him glowed and shimmered with a wondrous lustre, and the staff he carried blazed with light, while the basket upon his arm overflowed with the most beautiful blessings.

  46. No, the beggar was gone, in very truth, and had left not so much as a rag behind him.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rag" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; asbestos; backdrop; bait; banter; beat; berate; blacken; border; canvas; chaff; cloth; counterweight; cringle; curtain; cyclorama; daily; dance; deride; drapery; drop; duds; execrate; extra; fabric; felt; flat; flipper; flout; foot; frock; fun; garment; gibe; goods; gown; hanging; haze; head; jape; jaw; jazz; jeer; jest; joke; jolly; kid; lace; largo; leech; material; mock; napery; needle; news; newspaper; pan; paper; pillory; presto; pull; rabble; rag; ragtime; raiment; rally; rant; rate; rave; revile; rib; ride; ridicule; roast; robe; rock; rout; ruck; sail; scene; scenery; scoff; scold; screen; scrim; sheet; shred; silk; special; stuff; suite; swing; syncopation; syncope; tableau; tabloid; taunt; tease; teaser; tempo; textile; texture; timing; tissue; togs; tormentor; transformation; triplet; twit; vestige; vestment; vilify; weave; web; weekly; weft; wing; woodcut; woof; wool