Sentence examples for dragged about from inspiring English sources

"dragged about" is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone or something that is being moved around in an ungainly or forceful manner. For example, "The dog was dragged about by its leash."

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He was dragged about two hundred feet.

I am dragged about 50ft across the beach.

She was dragged about 200 feet; half of her left leg was severed and her right foot was mangled.

Fascinated by this tale, Fiona Tan has produced a captivating installation that invokes the many whales that have been dragged about the world for our wonder and amusement.

The sisters were dumbfounded that their mother, after being dragged about 100 feet by their injured father, managed to drive her own car to safety.

Attackers will make incisive runs at the correct time and even call for the ball and defenders will hold their position and not get dragged about too badly by opposition attackers.

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They were just three more of the hundreds we drag about every time we change landlords.

Just down the street, the police, in full riot gear, attacked the crowd's leading edge, firing rubber bullets and beating protesters with their clubs, dragging about a dozen of them into vans.

It's a surprise any of Kuchar's gladiators and Thor-type beefcakes can even walk, let alone slay brontosauruses, given the bulging impedimenta they drag about between their legs.

But if by October they are still really dragging about getting up and dressed, maybe they're not too keen about school.

So I dragged for about three months and some more.

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