Raggedy

Usage examples of tattered.

She had forgotten about the tattered wrap and its treasured contents in the time Acorn had been with her.

Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.

Maren traversed every street of Alameda, crisscrossing the banana-shaped island, even going down Eagle Avenue and the tattered neighborhood of her childhood.

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Tahquil drew out the tattered aulmoniere, one of the few keepsakes she had salvaged from Tamhania.

Out of the stillness of a strange love, I saw her in a tattered wig, a pair of blue glasses on her face, bangles on her arms.

He settled down at last in the kitchen, blinds open to the cobalt-blue sky, suburban-style row houses lit up in the efflorescence of dawn like tattered candy boxes.

Inside was a tattered nylon blue book bag, the same kind Alex had carried to school.

Raeve cast one look back at them all, shook his head, and as the tattered intruders advanced, suddenly ducked and bolted through them, making for the door.

When the wind blows outside, dust still clouds up from the meal bin through the chute into the tattered bolter that hangs crooked in its frame.

Father Balbi looked like a peasant, but he was in better condition than I, his clothes were not torn to shreds or covered with blood, his red flannel waistcoat and purple breeches were intact, while my figure could only inspire pity or terror, so bloodstained and tattered was I.

She looked out to sea and saw some crofters in a barely seaworthy little boat, heaving their tattered nets over the side into the water.

I carried, to my feet, to the tattered places in my coat, and the cuts and scratches I had received from the thorns.

But this visible darkness did not prevent me from remarking that the countess was wrapped up in an old tattered gown, and that her chemise did not shine by its cleanliness.

As our rather grand procession swept by, a voice called my name from a doorway and I turned to see a small dosser, with a bobble hat pulled down over his eyes, holding out a tattered copy of the Evening Standard which had formed part of his bedding.