Sentence examples for dragging slightly from inspiring English sources

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Despite the technological advantages, the brakes felt slightly unnatural at low speeds, as if they were dragging slightly.

Not one foot in front of the other, but one foot dragging slightly, then the other joining it, steadying, stepping again.

But fears of dragging slightly tetchy toddlers past endless dusty engravings of celestial bodies were dispelled the moment we walked through the door of the spectacular 14th century house where Copernicus grew up.

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But in general it felt a little uneven, and the pace dragged slightly.

After that, things dragged slightly, which was no fault of the performers.

As he is dragged slightly back, a man in a blue jacket can be seen crouching on the grass and leaning to pick up an object.

Though one or two arias drag slightly, conductor Mark Wigglesworth tends towards snappy tempos - the orchestra (the London Philharmonic, on fine form) positively hurtles through the overture.

The story drags slightly in the middle, but there is no mistaking the rampant acceleration of the final act, in which all those present are called upon to save a life and, in so doing, to fulfill the task for which each of them is essentially equipped.

Though it drags slightly at times and a villain and a kleptomaniac who figure largely in the plot are overdrawn and not always logical, "Achilles' Love" has two appealing leads in Mather Zickel and Claudia Besso; a charm-filled Greek chorus to prod the young lovers and save the day; and a general air of affection.

After her speech, Simpson Miller elicited laughter from the audience by dragging a slightly embarrassed-looking Holness, now the leader of the opposition, to the podium and saying she was his "second mother".

She would reach for her purse at the sight of me — small for my age and dressed in a standard-issue dark-blue uniform, my hair held up by beaded elastics in a fountain-like spray above my head — dragging the slightly dishevelled travelling encyclopedia salesmen of Istanbul down the stone corridors.

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