Sentence examples for dragged about the from inspiring English sources

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.

At the end of The Taming of the Shrew, it is Petruchio's maddening insistence that the moon is the sun or the sun the moon that finally breaks Kate, dragged about the roads by the ruffian she has been forced to marry, a man who cannot love a woman until she is broken.

Timaeus, to increase the mockery, adds further, that the boys tied him by his lame leg, and so drew him through the streets, while the Syracusans stood by laughing and jesting at the sight of that very man thus tied and dragged about by the leg, who had told Dionysius that, so far from flying on horseback from Syracuse, he ought to wait till he should be dragged out by the heels.

I am dragged about 50ft across the beach.

A 49-year-old woman who reached into a subway car when its doors were closing was slightly injured yesterday when she was dragged about four feet along the platform at the Union Square station, the police said.

In December, city officials released video of Mr. Coleman's limp body being handled roughly and dragged, about three years after the episode and at the height of the protests over Mr. McDonald's death.

Arguments dragged on about the use of the word "black" versus "African-American," about construction companies not hiring "brothers with felony records," about why only houses on the poor side of St. Charles Avenue were red-tagged for demolition.

He was dragged about two hundred feet.

Osborne also faced an attack from the right for dragging about 400,000 more people into the 40p rate of income tax and reducing the amount of tax relief those on higher incomes receive on pension payments.

The woman was dragged along the road for about 250 metres.

The woebegone Bardem drags himself about the city with his shoulders sagging; the many scenes of women pulling him into bed are puzzling in the extreme.