Sentence examples for it tug from inspiring English sources
But Mr Knuckles also made it tug at its strings.
This is the easy one - does it tug your heart-strings?
As John Muir, considered the father of US national parks, put it: "Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe".
Such sentimentality "involves the wilful neglect of various aspects of the target of the emotion that would necessitate a more complex and less rewarding response; a false intensity of experience is gained by ignoring any features that militate against the simple, one-sided response which typically idealises, glamorises or romanticises the target, making it tug at the heartstrings".
When you're in a video, you're presented with a series of reactions: you can hit buttons to signify that you've laughed at the video being shown to you, hated it, or felt it tug at your heartstrings.
As a planet moves around its star, it tugs just a little bit, causing the star to wobble back and forth.
Two-body problem: As one body orbits the other, it tugs gravitationally on its partner, altering the original orbit.
"It tugs at you both ways".
It tugs at the heartstrings of any compassionate American.
It had no past; it tugged at nothing.
