How to Use ragtag in a Sentence

ragtag

adjective

• Both the tent and the traveling quarters are on the ragtag side.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• Watching a ragtag group of kids save the day never seems to get old.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 9 July 2019
• Three lead singers, 12 warped tunes, a ragtag team of rock misfits.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2021
• At the Odyssey, the company has a loose, ragtag feeling.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Can a ragtag team of scientists save the planet in time?
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
• Each side raised an army of ragtag soldiers to scare the other off, and nearly as many lawyers.
  — John Sedgwick, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
• There, a ragtag group of boys playing soccer caught her eye.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
• At one point, the ragtag pack of four homeless strays spies a U.S. Postal Service billboard.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The tragedy has sent reeling the ragtag world that revolves around the Beef, though the restaurant’s creditors don’t care.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• When Zhong Renhui joined the Red Army in the early '30s, the communist troops were a ragtag corps of peasants.
  — Jennifer Lin, Philly.com, 22 May 2017
• On the street style front, the singer Soko showed up with a ragtag group of dudes all donning dresses last year at Paris Fashion Week.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 June 2017
• The ragtag crew of rebels don’t stand a chance; there are simply too many, and Grogu’s strength is seemingly at an all-time low.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
• Led by a tenth-place effort from Sam Gordon, the ragtag city-wide team finished fourth with 161 points.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• Games are kind of ragtag, and there’s not really a standard.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• At 1600 hours on a recent Sunday, Wood and Norris joined a ragtag corps of air observers to scan the skies along the Hudson.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The title refers to a ragtag football game played by Marines on the island of Guadalcanal on Christmas Eve 1944.
  — Ben Yagoda, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
• The new kid to the neighborhood finds the 1950s version of his squad on a dusty diamond with a ragtag group of kids who love baseball.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 11 Dec. 2019
• No wonder those kids, in their ragtag finery, adored him.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Sep. 2022
• Then the ragtag band of locals gathered on the common, shouted out their roll call, and waited.
  — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• The assembly of athletes was something of a ragtag bunch.
  — Outside Online, 29 July 2021
• And for the Lost Boys, start with pj's and add cardboard swords, a raccoon hat, and other ragtag accessories.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2022
• Spike and his ragtag group of misfits go on wild adventures in this beloved series.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Nov. 2022
• Long-term, Harris wants to build a new stadium to replace the ragtag 27-year-old structure.
  — Hank Tucker, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• So how did this ragtag group morph into a deadly backup unit?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2022
• There have been countless coming-of-age shows built around ragtag groups of teenagers, but none have been quite like Reservation Dogs.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2021
• Along with a ragtag crew and a robot kitten for a sidekick, the space ranger may just be up to take on the complicated challenge.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 7 Aug. 2022
• If barbecue and Cajun are the mom and dad of 225° Urban Smoke, their kids are the ragtag band of Southern eccentrics drawing on the wall with crayons.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• In addition to its fun storyline, the success of the film could be credited to the talent of its young cast, a ragtag mix of fresh faces.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 26 June 2020
• Through the windows of the House chamber, Lofgren’s aides could see outside that a ragtag group of rioters had been able to climb atop the risers and the platforms.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2021
• Based on the best-selling video game series of the same name, Borderlands follows a ragtag team of misfits who band together to battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits in the planet of Pandora.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024