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

2. He arrived with a ragtag collection of friends.

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

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

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

6. The rebels are a ragtag force.

7. But in an almost Biblical miracle, the ragtag Jewish forces defeated the combined Arab might.

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

9. Because there's a ragtag group of rebels facing an evil regime and their greatest hope may be the fighting fury of robots they assemble out of the scrap heap.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. While Sharpton insisted that his long-shot candidacy would prevail, his fledgling campaign looked a bit ragtag.

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

17. 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.

18. At first glance, the 9/11 assault looked like a stunning win for al-Qaeda, a ragtag band of jihadists who had bloodied the nose of the world's only superpower.

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

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

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

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