Definition: 1. A piece of old, often torn, cloth used especially for cleaning things. 2. A small piece of cloth or paper. 3. A newspaper that you believe to be of low quality.
Use 'rag' in a sentence:
1. Wipe off any streaks using a clean area of the lint-free rag.
2. Sometimes all it takes is a wipe with a damp rag.
3. "They always rag me about my car," he says.
4. 'This man Tom works for a local rag,' he said.
5. In the district hospital's maternity ward, a wrinkled old woman walks out holding a just-born girl wrapped in a dirty rag like an unwelcome present.
6. Mumbai is thought to be home to hundreds of thousands of rag-pickers.
7. The result is you become like a rag doll.
8. That was a red rag to Israel.
9. I've only once seen him lose his rag.
10. One prisoner set fire to rags and hurled them into the courtyard.
11. The man went from rags to riches in a short period of about five years.
12. If there are more tenacious spots to clean off, you can use a wet rag to rub them clean.
13. It looked like a piece of rag.
14. Ragged fingernails raked her skin.
15. Rag-tag Hmong rebels remain in the remote jungles of Laos.
16. There were men, women and small children, some dressed in rags.
17. Use a rag to wipe splashes off of the tank between shots.
18. Hers was a classic tale of rags to riches.
19. I am fed up with those rag-to-riches story.
20. The rag trade is extremely competitive, and one needs plenty of contacts in order to survive.
21. He glared at me like a bull at a red rag.
22. She twisted a rag round my hand.
23. On the birthday party, she wore glad rags.
24. He was wiping his hands on an oily rag.
25. She'd managed to strip the bloodied rags away from Nellie's body.
26. She could hear his ragged breathing, as if he had been running.
27. I threw him aside like he was a Rag Doll.
28. It's just an old rag I had in the closet.
29. The multicoloured rag rug was chosen to liven up the grey carpet.
30. The five survivors eventually reached safety, ragged, half-starved and exhausted.
31. I saw them sitting round the fire, chewing the rag.
32. She was about thirty, ten years older than the youngsters ragging her.
33. Spain ran England ragged early on but goalkeeper Ian Walker proved a formidable barrier.
34. Their performance was still very ragged.
35. The meat was cooked to rags [ a pulp].
36. The ragged man drags a wangon of rag fragments.
37. It's tempting to leave your cleaning implement—a damp rag or sponge—hanging around to use the next day, but that could create a germ breeding ground.
38. He returned home as wet as a rag, and tired out from weariness and hunger.
39. They'd send me here, there and everywhere and I'd run myself ragged and get no place.
40. No, he calls for a pitcher of water and a rag.
41. The ragged man drags a wagon of rag fragments.
42. The witch that came to wash the steps with pail and rag was once the beauty Abishag, the picture pride of Hollywood.
43. "This man Tom works for a local rag," he said.
44. He imagines giving up that terrific drive towards imagination and idealization and a return to the "rag and bone shop of the heart".
45. This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a smile, on the three portresses.
46. In the corridor were four dirty, ragged bundles, just identifiable as human beings.
47. He plugged the hole in the pipe with an old rag.
48. The simplest rag-rugs are made with strips of fabric braided together.
49. He held the dirty rag at arm's length.
50. I could hear the sound of his ragged breathing.
51. This sort of information is like a red rag to a bull for the tobacco companies.
