Clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Run ragged.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Text set with ragged right margins.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Noun : a piano rag.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : Some of the boys were ragging on him about his haircut.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : a ragged old man. ,ragged clothing. ,a ragged wound. ,ragged stones. ,a ragged garden. ,a ragged piece of work.    From Dictionary.com. 

He screamed, letting the sound die out in ragged sobbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline'] Reference

They look like miniature chimney sweeps in ragged clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [HEY CROW! • by Rumjhum Biswas] Reference

Next day he called his ragged, hungry men together and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln] Reference

A small brown-skinned boy in ragged shorts swings in a hammock.    From Wordnik.com.  [First flight - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias] Reference

Her breath came in short, ragged gasps, and she was crying sound - lessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilse Witch]

There was a demented woman who roamed the streets of this small town in ragged and soiled clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Francisco, Ixtacamaxtitlan, part 2] Reference

Their beds were constructed of rough boards suspended on bricks; thin ragged sheets were neatly laid on top.    From Wordnik.com.  [A story about the "Gringa Mama".] Reference

He hung grimly to the royal standard, his breath coming in short, ragged gasps as the bitter taste of adrenalin filled his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolai Dante Omnibus: three times the fun] Reference

"The flowers are called ragged robins, Rachel," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Little Peppers and their Friends] Reference

The word was ragged and it excited her even more than his confession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down] Reference

The cobbler used to call the ragged boys in that lived about his shop, and teach them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rollo in London] Reference

"Well he actually calls the ragged gypsy woman 'my daughter,'" grumbled the old housekeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debts of Honor] Reference

Once it moves over land they get kind of ragged and torn up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008] Reference

But I deliberately try to make it a 'ragged' sort of movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Ruckley on Writing Battle Scenes] Reference

In writing about the horror of slavery, she finds a kind of ragged hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mercy: Summary and book reviews of A Mercy by Toni Morrison.] Reference

Still, he didn't want her to think that he was some kind of ragged-tailed hooligan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Gryphon]

More intriguing is Obama's use of the word "ragged" as an adjective as in the highly poetic "ragged air" or "ragged laughter.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Cashill's strange notion that Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father."] Reference

The sorrel runs in ragged flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second April] Reference

They "ragged" while Ranny lunged at them and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Combined Maze] Reference

They were a wild lot, in every kind of ragged garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle] Reference

Mine look kind of ragged at the moment after a hot August.    From Wordnik.com.  [May Dreams Gardens] Reference

I have been through college and I have been 'ragged' physically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't trust the Indian Media!] Reference

Each had been "ragged" on a subject of which he knew absolutely nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference

She occasionally flattered him, but more generally she teased or "ragged" him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Great Success] Reference

More intriguing is Obama's use of the word "ragged" as an adjective as in the highly poetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

One boy complained ruefully of having spent three terms under a form-master who had "ragged" him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hill A Romance of Friendship] Reference

And then in a kind of ragged unanimity: "Mordred for regent!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

12-14 days of age, they are then called ragged - jackets and are far game.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The hotel proprietor fumed at the idea of serving the ragged children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chocolate Grenades] Reference

His clothes have always concealed most of the body, though often with a ragged look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night Of The Living Dead] Reference

As the men hoist their camcorders, the mob starts a ragged howl, "Mo-ni-ca, Mo-ni-ca.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Monica Madness] Reference

"A career just came early for me," she says, playing with a thread from her ragged pants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchy On Mtv? Tough Gals, Rejoice.] Reference

Wearing a ragged T shirt and torn sneakers, Stompie explained why he had mobilized the children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons From South Africa] Reference