adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
edge
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Text may also be set centred to the page leaving a ragged edge on both the left and the right.
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But by the next morning sleep had smoothed over the ragged edges of Folly's doubt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a ragged shoreline
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A man in ragged clothes was begging on the corner.
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Alex was wearing ragged jeans with holes in the knees.
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Bev's voice was ragged with fatigue.
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He touched his ragged hat as she passed.
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Much of Cassidy's concert seemed ragged and under-rehearsed.
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She looked quite ragged and unkempt.
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The blanket she wore over her shoulders was ragged and filthy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, for the data analyst who is prepared to use judgement as well as arithmetic, smoothing can clarify many otherwise ragged situations.
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Dead, ragged heads of the climbing hydrangea can be removed, cutting where the stem joins the main branch.
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He was educated at Guthries, a school for ragged boys, where he was subjected to frequent beatings.
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The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes, crew cuts and sullen eyes.
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Through his increasingly deep, ragged breathing, he said her name once, twice.
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Trim ragged lawn edges with the aid of a half-moon edging iron.