Example Sentences

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This dimension makes it easy to trim raggedly whites between the edge of the spoon and sides of the skillet as you lift the egg from the hot water.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2021

After a raggedly played opening 24 minutes for both sides, it was the Nets who led 59-55 at halftime.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021

But his characters look more or less the same as the always have, with single-stroke arms and legs protruding from inverted-teardrop bodies topped with a raggedly spherical head.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2020

In this portrait, we find him an old man, in utter isolation, gray-haired, raggedly dressed, barefoot in a motorized wheelchair.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

His soft, reddish hair lay raggedly over the tops of his little ears.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers