Sentence examples for he pulled for from inspiring English sources

Teixeira went down and found an inside fastball that he pulled for his 12th home run of the season.

He went to 95 and then got a long hop, which he pulled for four.

What will he do with it, the 12ft 6in oar that he pulled for what we may reasonably assume was the last time in an Olympic final?

He pulled for his fellow plebes to succeed and was generous with his time, whether it was helping them study or getting down and doing situps and push-ups with those struggling to pass the physical test.

It is less well known that Davis was among the first wave of owners to scout the historically black colleges, from which he pulled, for example Art Shell, the rumbler on the left side of his offensive line.

Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard Blackburn, Hero Fisherman of Gloucester, by Joseph E. Garland (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $13), tells of a sailor who survived for five days alone in an open dory during a winter storm off Newfoundland in 1883 by allowing his hands to freeze to the oars as he pulled for land.

But the thing that stands out about him, ability aside, is that as tough a time as he's having, he pulls for everybody else.

The way New York tennis fans once screamed for Jimmy Connors, he pulls for his own lost youth, for when he was still young enough to imagine himself running under one of Elway's bombs.

When he's in there, I'm pulling for him and he pulls for me.

He was pulled for a substitute after only an hour.

He was pulled for Sergei Bobrovsky late in the second period.