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Example sentences for "raggedly"

Lexicographically close words:
rageful; rageing; rages; rageth; ragged; raggedness; raggie; ragging; raght; ragi
  1. I hardly noticed that the sound of gunfire died raggedly away.

  2. The noise of the battle outside rose to a high pitch and dwindled raggedly away.

  3. That was the answer and as a light clatter of sliding breech bolts followed the crescendo, its defenders went on shooting, more raggedly now, as fast as each man could work his repeater.

  4. They were determined men, raggedly clothed and bearded; incurious of gaze and uncommunicative of speech--but armed and purposeful.

  5. Between was a raggedly assembled group of mares old and young, with leggy yearlings, deer-footed colts, and more than one time-worn stallion.

  6. Those six small forms moving over the distant hill could be nothing else, but if she doubted, all room for doubt was instantly removed, for in a moment a group of horsemen passed raggedly over the same crest.

  7. They came in sight of a squalid settlement, built raggedly about a blacksmith's shop and a saloon.

  8. The track, raggedly defined in trampled loam and muddy furrow, bent in a direction which indicated that its terminus might be the switch where the empty cars had stood last night, waiting for the one-o'clock freight.

  9. Poor Aunt Wilshire was but the sample thrust in his face of all this mangled multitude, whose green-white lips had sweated in anguish, whose broken bones had thrust raggedly through red dripping flesh.

  10. He had a white beard, raggedly cut, but not very long, a hollow face, and exceedingly bright eyes.

  11. Their homes were squalid, their children half-starved and raggedly clothed in grotesque garments hastily fashioned out of the cast-off clothes of charitable neighbours.

  12. Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their boots broken and down at heel, they slouched past.

  13. His short beard was raggedly trimmed; his grizzled hair began to show the scalp.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raggedly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.