Sentence examples for am dragged from inspiring English sources

The phrase "am dragged" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is being pulled or taken along against their will, often in a figurative sense, such as being forced into a situation.
Example: "I am dragged into conversations I have no interest in."
Alternatives: "I am pulled" or "I am taken."

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am dragged

verb

To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

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I am dragged about 50ft across the beach.

"I am dragged into this whether I want to or not," he said.

I immediately think of my mother, and pain stabs into my heart as I am dragged back to the day of her murder.

"Well," she cackles, "we gotta fatten him up if we're ever going to eat him!" And with that I am dragged by my bony 9-year-old wrist into a steamy kitchen stuffed with red-cheeked aunts in aprons: Miriam, Susie, Sylvia, Judy and some women, distant cousins I suppose, whom I've never seen.

So here I am dragged out of retirement on to the stage in Cannes [to honour Jane Campion earlier this year], and all the film directors are telling me: 'Very nice to see you, Michael.' Well, I'm available, I have time on my hands, I'm not expensive, I'm easy to work with – well, that might not be true, but when I'm easy to work with, I'm really easy to work with.

"I find myself in front of the riot line, taking a blow to the head and a kick to the shin; I am dragged to my feet by a girl with blue hair who squeezes my arm and then raises a union flag defiantly at the cops.

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He mimed being dragged away.

Nothing is dragged out.

He is dragged there.

He was being dragged after the car.

Another student was dragged across the floor.

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