ragged edge

Example Sentences

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The last few years I've been off balance, right on the ragged edge of my technique where that if I have to push a little bit more, I lose it.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2024

But this sleek atmosphere conceals a ragged edge.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023

The Buccaneers’ season rode the ragged edge of disaster for the first two months.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2022

Yet she was born in Oklahoma, where her family, as she put it, was “on the ragged edge of the middle class … kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2019

She couldn’t keep the ragged edge from her voice when she added, “Don’t you think so too?”

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder