The playing sometimes sounds ragged and murky, at least on current copies.

His voice sounded uncharacteristically ragged; he was no longer able to hide just how rocky he felt.

"You know you are the only one," I said suddenly, my own voice sounding ragged and tired.

In her own very informed opinion, she sounded ragged and undisciplined.

There were a few times, too, when his ragtag band sounded downright ragged: the songs didn't always swing.

A long pause, in which his own breathing sounded ragged and loud in the empty, silent passage.

And in this closing work on the program, the orchestra sounded a bit more ragged than it had until then.

Bobby's voice broke off, sounded more ragged than he would've liked.

That bass solo in the 'Faust' still sounds thin and ragged.

As the terrain became progressively more hilly the engine note began to sound faintly ragged.