Sentence examples for ragged work from inspiring English sources

In the 20 years since New York State began requiring a five-cent deposit on cans and bottles, a ragged work force of thousands of collectors has become a familiar backdrop in the city, scuffling along the streets with shopping carts and plastic bags.

These are parents who run themselves ragged with work and hyper-parenting, presenting an "eviscerated vision of the successful life" that their children are then programmed to imitate.

I admired some of the nearly out-of-control passions surrounding Siegfried's death and also forgave a lot of ragged ensemble work and vague accompaniments.

"Cagelove" is a compulsively watchable, sometimes ridiculous mix of melodrama and horror that in fact may remind you of some of the more ragged early work of Mr. Rapp, who clearly understands the territory and displays a sure hand with this handsome production.

Married women and working moms spin ourselves ragged in the work-kids-housework-repeat-repeat-repeat cycle.

Mother and Child received several favourable reviews, and Watts' performance was praised by Tom Long of Detroit News, who stated that she "has the ability to make such a ragged transition somehow work".

Early in his career, Jordan was known to test the bodies and minds of overmatched teammates in practice, running the Bulls ragged as he worked his game, dreamed his dream and hope the two would one day fuse together.

Here is a work of ragged glory; dirty and galvanic; the rot-gut antidote to the refined official line-up.

"It is impossible for me to farm," he lamented over beet soup, in his ragged sweater and black work pants.

"Stations" is a ragged and deeply impressionistic work, with most of its forty-five minutespentnt watching people paint and waiting for trains to whir to life.

Marshall continued to march through her opponent's tiring jab in the third but her own work grew ragged and she had to absorb a solid uppercut near the bell.