Sentence examples for like a pull from inspiring English sources

Moreover, it is likely to leave you permanently protruding, like a pull over sweater you have loaned to a girl".

The state and federal governments continue to put money into Superior and other diminishing towns, trying to stem a demographic force that can seem like a pull of gravity.

Sheffield said he was satisfied with the diagnosis of cramping and added that if his problem had been something worse, like a pull or a tear, he would have been on the disabled list by now.

The spread showing Europe manages to include every little country and capital without too much crowding, maximizing the space on the page with interactive elements like a pull down "fact file" describing highests and longests and the Nordic countries leaping northward off the page.

My cab driver had tacked the kind of cross-town course that makes every turn feel like a pull on a slot machine lever.

"Daddy doesn't know the prices of dresses and panties so why don't you suggest a budget?" Alarmingly the most depressing thing about this one isn't the casual deployment of the word "panties", but the fact that it reads like a pull quote in support of a news item about how "9/10 MPs doesn't know the price of a pint of milk".

For example, your dog might like a rope pull toy, or he/she might like a throwing disc.

Even the base GLS, which starts at $19,915, includes nice touches like a pull-down handle built into the trunk lid and, below the ventilation controls, two easily accessible 12-volt power points, a USB port and an audio jack.

Gamely, Piazza went through the motions as he expressed the relief he felt when there was no structural damage revealed in the tests on his left wrist, the one that bent back like a pull-tab when he fielded a throw that tailed into the shoulder of the Marlins base runner Juan Pierre on Tuesday night.

But this defeat will linger like a pulled muscle.

Johnson bristles at these slights, which nag at him like a pulled hamstring muscle.