1. They looked like little ragamuffins.

2. Fancy, gentlemen in velvet scrapping like ragamuffins!

3. She had spent the previous evening at Ragamuffins nightclub in Camberley, Surrey.

4. A ragamuffin was walking up and down the rows of benches begging from anyone who was awake.

5. "The kids took one look at the male pup, a ragamuffin ball of string, and exclaimed, " Andy!

6. Last night his hourly wage, about ￡8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.

7. Unfazed, the Chaplinesque ragamuffin persisted, and he began to sing in the hurlyburly variety hills and cafesconcert in Paris and in the, provinces

8. (Martin Eden, by Jack London) The giant looked Contemptuously at the tailor, and said: “You ragamuffin! You miserable creature!” (Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)