Sentence examples for dragged millions from inspiring English sources

According to experts, Brazil's biofuel policy – under which crops are grown for fuel instead of food – has already dragged millions into poverty by triggering steep rises in food prices.

As one wag said, these Olympics dragged millions of kids away from their computer games and motivated them instead to watch endless hours of sport on TV.

Back then, the most obvious issue was a pragmatic one, of air-conditioning in Philadelphia, where both parties met: workers dragged fifty-pound ice blocks up to the roof, where they promptly melted.

They relied on a spinning wheel they'd dragged hundreds of miles with them to make clothing and survived on potatoes and wild mushrooms.

It's dragging millions and millions of people out of poverty.

-- The experiment has failed --and must bendeded before it drags millions to the grave.

Even bingo is going electronic, dragging thousands of grandmothers into the computer age.

That is the pull of FOBTs, the fixed-odds betting terminals that are dragging thousands into financial penury, addiction and mental health crises.

Iraq has been torturing routinely for years - dragging hundreds of terrified people into torture chambers where they are burned, beaten, cut, shocked with electricity and stretched on special machines.

MANTA, Ecuador - Early every morning, the cold water lapping up on the beach here is stained red with blood as surly, determined men in ragged T-shirts drag hundreds of shark carcasses off wooden skiffs and onto the white sand.

Thousands of people ransacked a car showroom owned by Jean-Claude's wealthy father-in-law, dragging hundreds of cars away as troops looked on.