"drag against" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to pull or move something with resistance or difficulty against something else. You can use "drag against" in a sentence when describing an action where one object is being pulled or moved against another object, causing friction or resistance. Example: The heavy suitcase dragged against the rough pavement as she struggled to pull it to the airport.
Almost without warning, a synth line starts to buzz and drag against his high.
There's a ghostly quality to her work, eerie undercurrents that drag against the synths-upon-synths euphoria.
There is still plenty of pressure on Kenya's elephants but they are still here, it's incredible that in this modern age we have seriously large elephants living in Tsavo who's tusks drag against the ground when they walk.
Just the other day the Journal warned the readers of what, it condeded, has been hitherto unnoticed "especially adverse effect of the corporation profit tax as a drag against more efficient economic activity".
Lava blocks in flight are subjected to forces of drag against the atmosphere, and of gravity.
In this model, blocks in flight are subjected to forces (F) of drag against the ambient air, and of gravity.
Andrea swung her feet so that her sandals dragged against the linoleum floor.
But alcohol was not the one who stripped me, fingered me, had my head dragging against the ground, with me almost fully naked.
It is also nonsense to suggest that Britain is at risk of being dragged, against its will, into a European superstate, as Liam Fox and others have suggested.
As I arrived at the police station and parked my car, I was surrounded by a number of individuals who I did not know and dragged against me into a car against my will.
In "Reeling," one of the segments, Ms. Wolfe delicately layered instruments atop a recording of a French Canadian folk singer; Mr. Lang's "unused swan" combined samples of knife sharpening with the icy wash of chains dragged against metal.
