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"Tug" in a Sentence (19 examples)
The angler felt a strong tug on the line.
Parliamentary activity has become a political tug of war between the ruling and opposition parties over the issue.
You're at the zoo, so please don't harass the animals. It is forbidden to throw rocks at them, poke them in the eyes with sticks, and to tug at their fur.
Tom gave the rope a tug.
Sami felt a tug on his blanket.
How do you train a dog not to tug on its leash?
She felt a gentle tug on her sleeve.
It finds planets using a technique called the radial-velocity method, which measures changes in the speed of a star's movement toward or away from earth caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet.
Lukas felt an arm tug him down.
Benedito gave the kid a playful tug on its ear as it tried to nibble on his hat.
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The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
Even though the authors note that they have not "exhausted the subject of San Francisco's queer history," the hope is that enough of "us" outside the Bay Area will find something of ourselves represented in the book and will feel that tug of connection to and solidarity with the gay capital's community.
But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.
Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
Trailers are delivered by road to Poole, Portsmouth, or Rosslare in Ireland. They are then loaded onto ferries by dockyard tractors called "tugs". After crossing the Channel, the driverless loads are disembarked by tug and taken to the specially constructed freight terminal in Cherbourg port. Each rail wagon holds two lorry trailers and features a new 'pivoting pocket' which moves through 45° to allow the tug to push the trailer onto the wagon from alongside.
Cattiwi came down the steep lane with his five-horse timber-tug
He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.
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