Sentence examples for ragged against from inspiring English sources

They looked slow and ragged against the worst team in the NBA, trailing by as many as 19 points, before something even more improbable happened.

Marye's Heights exacted a more ragged toll, against both the Blue and the Gray.

— MIKE HUGUENIN Fourth-seeded Syracuse grinded it out, winning 66-60 in a ragged game against 12th-seeded California.

Which is fair enough: the fight of ragged warriors against sniveling and sadistic tyrants appeals across tastes and ideologies.

The Gypsy ethos acts as a ragged template against which the rest of the world is measured.

The Bruins appear much more ready to add a banner now than they did in ragged performances against Texas A&M and Western Kentucky in the previous two games.

Of all the reactions to Stein's death, none meant more than that of the thousands of Scotland's travelling supporters who learned of it haphazardly but with eerie swiftness as they got ready to celebrate a ragged draw against Wales that should guarantee their team a passage to the World Cup finals in Mexico next summer.

Later, storm clouds hung ragged and spent against a yellow sunset, and then it was night.

On the ride she met a man wearing a pair of ragged, mismatched gloves against the cold.

I turned off the TV then, when I saw the first chick shakily tumble from its ragged nest, smacking against a rock before floating off again into the wind.

The man had long blond hair not long blond hair that might go with a violin, but long blond hair as slick as ice on the back of his head and at the nape of his neck, as ragged as ice against a stream bank.