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He savors and shares tiny triumphs: “Before kicking off, he took a moment to rub the bills between his fingers, enjoying their raggy suppleness.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
All around are women in black dresses, partying with guys in seersuckers or dudes in raggy tees, proving the Karl Lagerfeld maxim that “one is never overdressed or underdressed with a little black dress.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2016
In the best of her '50s work, like Blue Level, 1955, the play of raggy shapes and roughly sliced strips of burlap has an impacted pictorial density.
From Time Magazine Archive
To them, Maeve would simply say, in her lilting voice, “That’s my raggy tree. She’s not a hawthorn, but she’ll do just fine.”
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
Patiently, again and again, she would explain how in her old home, leaving wishes on a raggy tree was a time-honored tradition.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
What of it—won't I learn, though, and the raggiest ever!
From Plays by Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nicolaevich
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