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"Rag" in a Sentence (34 examples)
She used a damp rag to wipe off the dust.
Don't talk to him about politics because it's like a red rag to a bull.
He lost his rag.
Tom cleaned the top of the table with a wet rag.
My mother uses my father's old short as a dust rag.
Why does the rag in your hand smell so good?
The cleaner insisted on using the old rag.
Grab a rag and help me clean up this mess.
After Tom wiped the table with a dirty rag, it looked dirtier than before.
When the hour for departure drew near the old mother went to her bedroom, and taking a small knife she cut her fingers till they bled; then she held a white rag under them, and letting three drops of blood fall into it, she gave it to her daughter, and said: "Dear child, take great care of this rag: it may be of use to you on the journey."
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—What a pretty dress! —What, this old rag?
It's semiformal. I can't show up dressed in rags!
rags to riches
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, toss'd, / And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
[…]even by the law of their own might and malice, not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
The other zealous rag is the compositor, / Who in an angle where the ants inhabit, / (The emblems of his labors) will sit curl'd
Nor will it be achieved by marching in the streets in leather, drag, chains, fish net over-flying-tits or any other get up. It will not be accomplished by hung-over bar rags, hustlers, shallow queens, or angry dykes.
Our ship was a clipper, with every rag set, stunsails, sky-scrapers, and all.
"'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen."
"It's heaviest on the first day, which might be why it hurts so much. After that, it slows down and eventually stops, but you'll need the rags for about a week."
"You must behave yourself, dear. Mr. Malone is a Pressman. He will have it all in his rag to-morrow, and sell an extra dozen among our neighbors."
I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.
"It took it out of me, though. I'm a rag this morning." "They work you too hard, dear."
What was he at, do you think? Counting bank-notes; he had bundles of them. […] Well, Guv'nor, he stood up by-and-by, and taking the bundles of rags, the big uns in one hand, tother ones in tother, he toddled out of the room; […] So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to.
We always leave rag on article typeset for the web.
the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.
Near-synonym: rough
“Yesterday it was Mademoiselle Daubreuil, today it is Mademoiselle—Cinderella! Decidedly you have the heart of a Turk, Hastings! You should establish a harem!” “It’s all very well to rag me. […]”
The rascal winked and grinned. 'There are always and means,' said he. 'But don't blame your foreman. He thought it was just a rag. I swapped clothes with his assistant, and in I came.'
Well, it’s only a rag, isn’t it?
Now let's rag it. We'll keep the notes more or less the same but make the rhythm more fun.
Moreover, the effectiveness of RAG might decrease if the knowledge base becomes “polluted” by LLM-generated content.
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