ragtag in English

noun
1
a group of people perceived as disreputable or undesirable.
This was the case when the US, the UK, and a ragtag of minor allies invaded the country in March.
adjective
1
untidy, disorganized, or incongruously varied in character.
a ragtag group of idealists

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "ragtag" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "ragtag", or refer to the context using the word "ragtag" in the English Dictionary.

1. Ragtag mongrel immigrants!

2. The rebels are a ragtag force.

3. He arrived with a ragtag collection of friends.

4. The village was guarded by a ragtag group of soldiers.

5. It was a luxury ragtag team obviously could not afford.

6. Its slopes were covered by a ragtag collection of shanties.

7. His ragtag collection of friends means more to him than I do.

8. It was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford.

9. It was a luxury the 9 ragtag team obviously could not afford.

10. The image of ragtag Vietminh guerrillas persisted, but it was pure romanticism.

11. Harnessing a proud man like Joey Seldon to that ragtag of a stand?

12. But in an almost Biblical miracle,[Sentencedict.com] the ragtag Jewish forces defeated the combined Arab might.

13. The forms tag, rag, and Bobtail, ragtag and Bobtail, and tagrag and Bobtail are also found.

14. Synonyms for Canaille include masses, mob, populace, proletariat, rabble, riffraff, scum, commoners, plebs and ragtag

15. The first moments of Trump’s impeachment defense put on by his ragtag legal team were Cringingly bad

16. Under the peace agreement, the Maoists' ragtag bunch of guerrillas was supposed to be integrated with the proper army.

17. Those statements raised expectations of Western backing among rebel leaders and their ragtag fighters, but none has been forthcoming.

18. The pleasure of leading the ragtag and bobtail proves but so-so, compared with the pleasure of commanding the House of Commons.

19. Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and others — forged the ragtag Red Army into a populist guerrilla force and hammered home socialist ideology.

20. A visit to the embattled city of Ajdabiya finds the anti-Qaddafi resistance slightly less ragtag than before, but still not quite professional.

21. The Brooders are a ragtag group of Seattle musicians, singing original Alt-Americana music with a twang to make you bounce and be proud to

22. Charles raised a ragtag army from his exiled subjects; this small, underpaid, poorly-equipped and ill-disciplined force formed the nucleus of the post-Restoration army.

23. Now, from the left, comes a ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others who've taken to the streets in protests dubbed "Occupy Wall Street.

24. It’s clichéd, falling back on the old pulp premise of the culturally diverse “ragtag team” of tough guys and gals, barking out Clumsily expositive dialogue in between unimaginative fights.

25. It’s clear almost immediately that filmmaker Fife is looking to emulate the feel of an old-school comedy involving ragtag misfits, and yet there’s little doubt that The Bellmen is, by and

26. This week China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), as the armed forces are known, is celebrating the 80th year since it was born as a group of ragtag rebels against China's then rulers.

27. In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.

28. A ragtag bunch into fat and fatter Bellies, chubby men, starter guts, beer guts, big muscle and chunky muscle, bears, chubs, and so much more! 80957 members and growing! 3067 currently online.

29. Instead, he cursed, Caroused and shocked moviegoers as the hard-drinking reprobate coach and player for a ragtag hockey team in 1977's Slap Shot, one of the rowdiest, crudest, funniest and most scathingly honest sports comedies ever

30. "Burdocks" drew inspiration from Cornelius Cardew's late 60s ensemble, the Scratch Orchestra, a group of players made of both professional and amateur musicians (and, indeed, "non-musicians") who played loosely drawn graphic scores, ragtag versions of classical warhorses or, more conceptually, followed written or verbal instructions that more