Sentence examples for ragged stand from inspiring English sources

The dog spooked a small herd of mule deer out of a ragged stand of juniper and they bounded past him, covering great lengths of ground with each leap, their forms backlit against the sky now lightening in the east.

Its whitewashed villages can pass for Greece; its ragged mountains can stand for Scotland; its winelands can make do for France; the Karoo desert can double for Arizona; the coastal cliff roads can be the Italian Riviera.

Now, large groups of ragged-looking men stand outside his army base every morning, waiting to enlist.

The sign out front, which had adjustable plastic letters that before the storm had advertised a special on a Maryland delicacy, stuffed ham, was ragged, but still stood.

Similarly ragged and unkempt, they stand at the entrances of markets.

At the concession stand a ragged customer in a dirt-shined suit chewed 0a chocolate donut and sipped black coffee, looking past the parking lot, carefully considering his choice for secretary of state.

There are plans for new housing and commercial space, for more sidewalks and a town center where a ragged trailer park now stands.

Over the last century, logging and farming has turned huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest into a ragged patchwork of disconnected stands.

She stood clutching the ragged dictionary she uses to look up words like "DNA," "cell" and "immortality".

De Pijp is a ragged, busy neighborhood of falafel stands, artists' lofts, yoga studios, Surinamese restaurants and coffee shops with reggae and pot smoke coming out their windows.

I stood alone watching the ragged clouds.