Sentence Examples

1. A cart, the remains of a smashed barrel its only contents, the staves twisted by some careless impact, cast sharp ragged shadows in the moonlight across the wall.
2. She could feel her magic dwindling and her breath came in ragged, sharp gasps.
3. From the tyres and spokes hung ragged pieces of flesh.
4. Evan was already sprinting as fast as he could, a stitch knifed into his side and his breath came out ragged.
5. He did not recognise the short man, clothed in ragged poverty, that he was talking to.
6. Passepartout jumped off the box and followed his master, who, after paying the cabman, was about to enter the station, when a poor beggar-woman, with a child in her arms, her naked feet smeared with mud, her head covered with a wretched bonnet, from which hung a tattered feather, and her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl, approached, and mournfully asked for alms.
7. Stripped of flesh, ragged and smashed, it was recognisable only as being human.
8. Eventually retrieved, unspoilt fruit clasped to his chest, a free arm aimed ineffectual blows at any ragged urchins who came too near.
9. I was accustomed to the sometimes ragged, usually weary, look of many of the people I interviewed, but Nigel greeted me in sartorial splendor.
10. With deliberate slowness he undid her vest, her breathing growing increasingly ragged as he proceeded.