Sentence examples for dragging about from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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

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.

What followed was one-way traffic as defenders dithered and were dragged about with ease while possession-starved forwards looked on forlornly.

All around, the woods look worse for wear after a messy night: clods of earth kicked up by foraging wild boar; chunks of bark stripped from the trees by elk; timber chomped up and dragged about by unscrupulous beavers.

As a general comment on Aristotle's analysis, Aquinas remarks: "It is not the knowledge of the universal but only the evaluation of the sensible, which is not so excellent, that is dragged about by passion".

A coffin is also regularly dragged about for foreboding's sake.

AS: I like getting beat up and dragged about and jumping off waterfalls.

He was dragged about two hundred feet.