Pull

When I give the signal, pull the rope.

Pull your belt tight before starting off, will you?

He put forth his hand […] and pulled her in.

Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.

to pull fruit from a tree

pull a finch

He and some of his companions one day entered a garden in the suburbs, and having indulged their appetites, desired to know what satisfaction they must make for the fruit they had pulled.

Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.

While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun. The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.

I pulled at the club last night.

He's pulled that bird over there.

Grab your coat, love, you've pulled.

Wow, Joyce pulls, actually.

Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.

The book was due to be released today, but it was pulled at the last minute over legal concerns.

I'll have to pull a part number for that.

This computer file is incorrect. Can we pull the old version from your backups?

They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.

It's the contractor's responsibility to pull the necessary permits before starting work.

He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.

You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.

What are you trying to pull?

What are you trying to pull, anyway? You say you want to sell, but you have nothing to offer?! You've got some nerve, kid!

Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.

He pulled an Elvis and got really fat.

They're trying to pull a Watergate on us.

It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

As the man at the oars pulled him across, the scientist said to him, "Do you know astronomy?"

I pulled a personal best on the erg yesterday.

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

If you are going to pull or chop the pork butt, take it out of the smoker when the meat is in the higher temperature range, put it in a large pan, and let it rest, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes. Using heavy-duty dinner forks, pull the pork butt to shreds.

…we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.

Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.

This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.

You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….

Shield yourself, pull with Mind Blast if you want, or merely pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.

How many points did you pull today, Albert?

The favourite was pulled.

Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.

Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.

Danny pulled at his beer and thought for a moment.

Pull around to the window please.

He pulled the car forward until he was out of the way.

The state trooper pulled me for going 60 in a 55 zone.

'I never liked Bowler, and I had my suspicions when Captain Ferndale persuaded you to put him up in that race. I did not discover until some time after that he pulled the horse.'

He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.

She took several pulls on her cigarette.

I found myself suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon the ring, which was fastened at the top of my box.

The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.

iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet

The hypnotist exerted a pull over his patients.

Tresham's up to his eyes in dock business and town business, a regular jobmonger, he has no use for anybody who hasn't a pull.

I don't have a lot of pull within the company.

She wants to work in the villages, and she has a lot of pull with some ministers and there she is, like a political supervisor.

I have already put Matthew Williams off for a few days. He wants to see her too, but he doesn't have pull with the director.

If Netflix truly cared about those of us sequestered to our homes, with our shelves of beans and bad-news-addled brains, it would release either a new season of Queer Eye or another season of the similarly soothing Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat to help us bide our time. Alas, I have no pull at Netflix, and neither seems to be coming soon.

a zipper pull

mythical FYP pull

In weights the favourite had the pull.

the pull of a movie star

server pull

pull technology

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the pull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.

a wrestling pull

this wrastling pull betweene Corineus and Gogmagog, is reported to have befallen at Douer.

They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.

Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.

Heah, Sam Johnsing, jis' take a pull at dis bottle, an' it will make yo' feel better.

However, both gentlemen were clearly of one mind over the quality of the wine, for they each took a prolonged pull, smacked their lips, and looked hard at each other, as though in silent communion over the excellence of the vintage.

Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'

The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.