The wind filled the ragged sails of the two ships.

Nobody else in all Norfolk had a ragged sail of quite that shape and colour.

Her ragged old sail was coming down.

She was shot-ridden and neglected, her sails ragged and discoloured,her hull stained and battered.

Faltering yet game, ragged sails flapping emptily, we slid through the waters, until they grew shallower and turned to aquamarine.

It was a frigate, some two feet high, with dirty, ragged sails and peeling paint.

Some hours later (it was hard to judge time in the constant night) the ragged, flimsy sails were done.

The precise afflictions of the Antelope - listing to port, ragged sails, constant leaks, and an evidently incompetent crew - are all likely problems.

How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!

A flap of his scalp hung down almost to one eye in a triangular shape like a ragged sail.