Sentence examples for appears to drag from inspiring English sources

The dog, which was on a lead, appears to drag the man forward a short way.

"Swipe painting (Chase)," which appears to drag a credit card across the canvas to make a gestural flourish like the cartoon brushstroke in a Roy Lichtenstein, uses the plastic card's printed ID to serve as Sietsema's signature.

Although the resistance evolution is likely to also include other loci and genetic processes, it appears to drag along a new Xpr1 haplotype, which then becomes the most frequent haplotype in the respective population.

The NRA appeared to drag its feet on the Falcon Heights shooting, taking more than a day and a half to address it publicly.

Aviation agreed a weak emissions-reduction scheme last month in Montreal, leaving shipping and the IMO exposed and appearing to drag its heels.

In shades of the 1988 incident between Vinnie Jones and a rather more unfortunate Paul Gascoigne, Vertonghen appeared to drag himself off the Emirates turf and grab Giroud in his private area before running off.

Ben Fields, the schools police resource officer who has been thrust into the spotlight following an incident at a South Carolina school at which he appeared to drag a student, has previously been the subject of both criticism and praise.

The visitors also were also unlucky not to be awarded a penalty in the 92nd minute when substitute Costa Barbarouses was brought down in the box after tangling with Jeonbuk's Jae-Moung Lee, who appeared to drag down the Melbourne attacker.

Guns were fired in the air, civilians were beaten on the ground; several soldiers appeared to drag lifeless bodies – unconscious or dead, no one could tell – towards small piles of rubbish by the roadside.

He has left names like Donovan, Bocanegra and Cherundolo – those grinding, do-or-die, counterpunching American types – out in the cold, at times appearing to drag an entire nation of supporters kicking and screaming into a brave new world.

By early May the opposition had submitted petitions with some 1.8 million signatures (nine times the roughly 200,000 required to move the recall process along), but the electoral commission appeared to drag its feet in the validation process, prompting demonstrations, some of which turned violent.