Sentence examples for is tugging from inspiring English sources

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is tugging

verb

To pull or drag with great effort

  • The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.

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Clare is tugging me forward.

Economic gravity is tugging at Tottenham's heels.

A little boy is tugging resentfully on his father's arm.

The way Teller plays Sutter, something unhappy is tugging at the young man's insides.

It is barely perceptible, but, like gravity, it is tugging on everything.

Gravity is tugging at them and they want to slide out across the bottom landing.

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It lets go and almost immediately my other leg is tugged up and back.

Some people were tugging and running.

Ms. Stevenson was tugging at his arm.

"It's tugging at his heartstrings.

Actually that's harsh – Rudnevs was tugging Boyata's shirt.

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