rags

British  

/ ræɡz /

plural noun

1. torn, old, or shabby clothing

2. cotton or linen cloth waste used in the manufacture of rag paper

3. informal

   1. from poverty to great wealth

   2. ( as modifier )

      a rags-to-riches tale

4. informal best clothes; finery

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Example Sentences

My mom knew awkward opinions were like gasoline rags in a summertime barn, but I knew what he was talking about.

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Half its windows seemed to have been broken and replaced with rags.

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The black rags of his ruined shirt clung to his heavy shoulders.

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Anna had rags in her basket to wrap around our hands.

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Mama went in the house and came back with some clean rags, a bottle of peroxide, and some iodine.

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