Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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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).