Sentence examples for ragged settlement from inspiring English sources
The Gypsies in question are a ragged settlement of 20,000 people, about 12 miles southeast of here, in the Czech city of Most.
But they loom large here in the Jordan Valley, with its dotted, ragged line of small settlements like this one, with only 40 families.
Sulfurous redoubts like the tiny Jewish settlement in Hebron and the ragged hilltop outposts are the soul of the settlement movement.
He returns to the English settlement a changed man, and Pocahontas helps a ragged, corrupt, deeply divided collection of would-be colonists to survive its first dreadful winter.
Yet the ragged, rocky shoreline along the fjord has resisted the encroachment of permanent settlements, in large part because it remains frightfully inhospitable.
An exhortation like that is easy to imagine as the inspiration for the cheerily informal explosion of energy that is "Break the Floor," the exuberant if ragged wedding of tap dancing and rock music at the handsome Harry DeJur Theater at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side.
Your breathing becomes ragged.
Watch those ragged edges.
