Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rags
IPA transcription: [ɹ'æɡz]
Usage examples
  • They do not mend their rags, but they embroider them.
  • "I carry a watch except when I've got my radiant rags on."
  • I made them of the nicest rags, and braided them in stripes.
  • Do you wonder that I am a little disturbed, my Prince of Rags and Whiskers?"
  • No, I shall not be able to judge of the artist's capacity by these rags and tatters.
  • "Wish I didn't look so like a scare-crow; but perhaps my rags will add to the effect.
  • You will come again, and you will be thin and pale and in rags, and you will fall at the door.
  • "There is no such cloth made by any of these local tribes," I announced, examining those rags with great care.
  • Men talk of their filth and their poverty: but commend me to sterling honesty, though clad in rags, as the poet saith.
  • A bed of straw and old rags was made for me in a big trough called the tan trough (a trough having been used for tanning purposes).