Sentence examples for ragged by from inspiring English sources

It seemed he could still hear Adele's unmelodious voice, which had been made ragged by cigarettes.

Growing up, she watched her mother being run ragged by the multiple demands of her life.

She was run ragged by her intrusive in-laws; her small children mostly served as props or punch lines.

One afternoon, run ragged by her offspring, she spent the entire afternoon snoozing atop the Zellers' woodpile.

I had a busy public life and a lot of those things got a bit ragged by the end".

Nadal was down two sets, and was trailing by 3-0 in the third and being run ragged by the scrambling Scotsman.

But the others -- were they disappointed in the paucity of fireworks by the Great Jordan in Comeback II, bored by the ragged play by mostly nondescript players, as well as comprehending that the night went downhill after Harry Connick Jr. and Wynton Marsalis performed a stirring pregame rendition of "God Bless America"?

"Memoria" sounded ponderous in a slightly ragged performance by the Imani Winds.

One thing to blame is ragged play by starters who did not play much in the preseason.

She also had been a frequent psychiatric patient, her family says, an iron-willed perfectionist who had dealt with life's ragged edges by making four suicide attempts.

But over the next two years she deals with her anger and achieves some kind of ragged serenity, by this time living a settled life, "mortgaged to the tits".