My grandmother used to make a rag pudding on Sundays, boiling the suet pastry filled with minced meat and onions until it was meltingly tender.

On his first day at the plant he was branded an oily rag and relegated to the dirtiest, most menial tasks on the shop floor.

After finishing the painting job, he piled the oily rags into a metal bin to reduce the fire risk.

Even among the town's poorest, the old man refused to be counted with the tag-rag.

During the protest, protesters waved red rags to signal their defiance.

Local cottages were built from coral rag, whose rough texture and pale color give the village a distinctive charm.

A rag-tag group of volunteers painted murals along the battered waterfront.

After the fight, the medics grabbed the stab-rags and rushed into the alley.

The stab-rag earned the men's respect by repairing their uniforms after every hard march.

On market days the rag baggers moved quickly from stall to stall, gathering scraps to sell.