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Example sentences for "ragman"

Lexicographically close words:
ragging; raght; ragi; raging; ragione; ragout; ragpicker; rags; ragtime; ragweed
  1. So the ragman went in and came to the young woman's house, and told her what the man was singing.

  2. Webster and the ragman had exaggerated the condition of their fellow-toper.

  3. Drucken Wabster and Brown the ragman came round the corner, staggering.

  4. The names of Adam le Hope and John de Hope appear on the Ragman Roll as swearing fealty to Edward I.

  5. The horse chose that moment to stop abruptly and an unpleasant encounter with the ragman seemed inevitable.

  6. It was no time for an honest ragman to be knocking on people's back doors, saying, "Any rags?

  7. When the ragman heard this he took that side at once.

  8. When I arrived I saw coming along the street a ragman with a dilapidated old horse, and one of the boys told him to go over on the other side of the road--which was the place where the current leaked.

  9. I heard a woman say the other day that she never knew what it was to be nervous until a certain ragman began to take pedestrian exercises up and down the alley back of her house.

  10. The ragman was paying too good a price for them.

  11. The ragman thereafter turned over his wares to these centrals, and when a spinner wanted material he had to state what he wanted it for and was then given the necessary quantities in proportions.

  12. Luckily she was possessed of a certain presence of mind; she raced up the shrubbery, found George, the garden boy, and poured out her news, pointing the direction in which the ragman had gone.

  13. The moment he was within reach, the ragman snatched him up and crammed him unceremoniously into the sack, then shouldered him, and walked off at a rapid pace.

  14. Hew de le Hay is on Ragman Roll, apparently of Fife (Bain, ii.

  15. Etym: [For ragman roll a long list of names, the devil's roll or list; where ragman is of Scand.

  16. Serle de Dundas, probably the father of our Elyss, is mentioned in Ragman Roll.

  17. Alexander de Airth, or Erth, is one of those whose names are recorded in the Ragman Roll.

  18. Submission of John Balliol Conquest and administration of Scotland The Ragman Roll Sept.

  19. This record, popularly styled the Ragman Roll, containing the names of about two thousand freeholders and men of substance in Scotland, is of extreme value to the Scottish genealogist and antiquary.

  20. In her absence, a ragman comes to the house, and the booby asks him, "Will you buy some rusty nails?


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ragman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beachcomber; beggar; bum; bummer; dogie; gamin; hobo; idler; loafer; piker; ragamuffin; ragman; ragpicker; rounder; stiff; stray; sundowner; swagman; tramp; urchin; vagabond; vagrant; waif; wastrel