Sentence examples for drawing it back from inspiring English sources
The key was passed through a hole in the door and turned, the point of the sickle engaging the bolt and drawing it back.
She makes expressive use of dynamics: hitting a note strong and then drawing it back, or inflating a soft purr into a siren call.
The right deal — one that prevents the Islamic Republic from going nuclear while drawing it back into the community of nations — is in the U.S. interest, but current Saudi fury is one measure of the difficulty and of a U.S. Middle Eastern policy that is falling short.
Yet his gifts for concision, for suspenseful pacing and for pushing his story to the edge of plausibility before drawing it back and letting the reader catch a breath make the stories feel new even to someone well versed in the sources.
We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
Many amphibians catch their prey by flicking out an elongated tongue with a sticky tip and drawing it back into the mouth before seizing the item with their jaws.
They push the poem forward and draw it back.
Henry extended a hand tentatively to see if they were still there, then drew it back.
A certain score until Umenyiora slapped the ball out just as Rodgers began to draw it back to throw.
After filing, wrap the tool in emery cloth and draw it back and forth across to polish the work surface.
