Sentence examples for ragged groups from inspiring English sources
However, we would be providing arms not to a disciplined military, but to ragged groups of brave volunteers who barely know how to use the weapons they have.
ON JANUARY 25th 2011, a day that would enter Egypt's very long annals, the streets of downtown Cairo were filled with ragged groups of protesters hiding from swirls of tear gas.
It would be in aid of one of the great causes of the day, the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Troops Out (of Northern Ireland), the miners, the steelworkers, the Anti-Nazi League; clumping round the floor to Tom Robinson in nothing so hierarchically exclusive as couples but ragged groups of girls and boys.
As the ragged group climbed aboard, they were offered the comforts of Blighty: lobster sandwiches and Navy rum.
Lionel is one of the "Minna Men", a ragged group of four orphans whom Minna more or less adopted as teenagers from the neighbourhood boys' home.
Dan Bartlett, a campaign spokesman, said a ragged group of campaign workers who returned today from Florida compared their departure to "pulling off the roof of an embassy".
This ragged group, living in tents and tarps for two months in the financial district in Lower Manhattan, helped focus everyone's attention on the growing income inequality in this country.
He had worked as a laborer and repairman, but by the mid-1990s, he was using drugs and hanging out on the fringes of a ragged group of methamphetamine users in western Colorado.
But his habit of command, learned during the war, did not serve him well during his first river voyage, which was afflicted by personal conflicts between the visionary Powell and his ragged group of mountain men.
Its pitiful hero, Akaky Akakievich, presides at the head of a ragged group of fictional copy-scribes that includes Melville's Bartleby, Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet and Kafka's clerks of the court.
An occasional gym class from one of the private schools near the park, boys and girls dressed in identicalsweatshirts, runs in a ragged group past a teacher with a whistle who holds a clipboard andstopwatch.
