Sentence examples for drag back from inspiring English sources

'drag back' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of someone or something being pulled back or retracted, or to describe someone or something moving back. For example: "The cheetah quickly dragged its prey back to its den."

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A drag back?

Weak international trade helped to drag back Germany and Italy, and limited France's recovery too.

Busquets produced a drag back despite being under pressure and the last man.

"If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump," he said.

When viewing the diff for a commit, the user gets a little slider bar they can drag back and forth – transitioning from before to after and back again.

They are very pretty small things, colourful and intricate, like something a bower bird would love to drag back to its nest to impress a potential mate.

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Faster delete can be performed by a more sustained/slow-drag back swipe.

There's Busquets being, well, Busquets: that drag-back was just the start.

The odd drag-back or back-heel should not blind us to the broad sweep of offensive mediocrity delivered.

Only Aaron Hughes separated Drogba and Meriem from Shay Given and with a confident drag-back, Drogba left Hughes trailing.

Is it just English speakers that refer to the drag-back-through-the-legs-with-the-inside-of-the-heel as "the Cruyff turn"?

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