Pulls

Gravity pulls things toward the center of the earth.

He pulls down at least twenty million yen a year.

Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.

It's the first time I've pulled Taninna's hair just like she pulls mine.

"The day pulls to a close" is a barbarism, possibly entirely opaque if you fail to recognize it as a translation of "The day draws to a close."

Call me the minute your train pulls in.

When it comes to paying out money, the boss pulls a long face.

Be careful, eyes, what you see, cause it's the second glance that ties your hands as darkness pulls the strings.

When a police officer pulls you over for driving in the fast lane, does he have carte blanche to search your cell phone, too?

I hope Tom pulls through this.