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How to use tugged in a sentence

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Grimacing with annoyance, she tugged the end of her hair, her fingers curling round her favourite blue and silver hairband.
Rochelle tugged at her bedspread so it would fall forward and cover all the junk hidden under her bed.
Reynolds's portrait of Garrick being tugged right and left by Comedy and Tragedy is here, but as a mezzotint.
Kate tugged off her muddy boots and leather armor to pull on a clean shift and the purple gown.
Suddenly providence tugged at H.E. Crumpled up on the curb lay a ten-dollar bill.
Cyril reached for his boots and tugged them on, and then pulled a shirt over his head.
She tugged at Rob's sleeve with just enough force to suggest that she would tug much harder if he did not comply with her wishes.
Max looked abruptly away and down, as if a small boy had suddenly tugged at his sleeve.
Soon Dougal turned over pulling the covers with him and she tugged them back over her.
The old man grabbed hold of it and tugged it from its confinement, dragging it out into the driveway.
She let out a strangled cry when he grabbed a handful of her hair and tugged her head back.
A yellow school bus pulled in front of us and Sera tugged my arm and James just followed us.
I was going to throw away the thick wad of paper he gave me when Terry suddenly tugged at my arm.
It stuck like glue and no matter how hard he tugged it, it just wouldn't budge.
Recently, the ship was tugged back to the Steel yard and covered with a tarp for the winter where it will begin renovations.
This did not deter the tug of war teams as they slid and tugged on the rope or the audience who cheered them on.
Cells tugged in one direction sent biochemical signals in the opposite direction in the form of a signature pattern of fluorescent light.
I pulled away the belt that was crossed across the bodice of my shift dress, and tugged the shift over my head.
With the slack in the rope, she darted forward, and pinched the bulge in her teeth, and tugged, eliciting a scream from Spade.
She ran the towel through her hair vigorously and tugged on her bra and underwear.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Frantically he tugged and tore at the slimy rope, hauling with a will and a prayer.
He tugged away furiously, with an eye on the now rapidly advancing and loudly shouting figure of the housemaster.
A breeze fluttered sash ends and tugged at cloaks, otherwise the assembly was motionless and awesomely quiet.
The iron lung was back the next time he came to, and he was being tugged toward it.
It was all one that Archibald tore and tugged at the bit, or roweled him red.
Accordingly we encouraged and urged, tugged and lambasted, with a right good will, but all to no effect.
He tugged back on the wheel suddenly, targeting a cumulous bank with his spinner.
She stared gape-jawed at this until the bellhop gently tugged at her elbow, giving her a dazzling smile.
The autoist emptied his cigar-case into his hand and offered the cigars to Farr, who had just tugged on his coat.
The displacer in his body pouch pulsed and tugged, urging him to be on his way toward the distant reactor room.
He tugged still harder, and repeatedly, until the whole tepee was in motion.
The swift current tugged at the underpinning, threatening to carry it away.
In his gray world, he puttered with his nervous hands and tugged at his sheet but he could not sit up.
He glowered at his fate, and tugged his tawny moustache for some time in silence.
The machine, yielding to the urge, tugged forward, straining at its bonds like a whippet eager for a race.
He tugged at his collar as if to breathe the easier, cleared his throat and began again.
The breeze was brisking, and the balloon tugged and leaped like a live thing.
Then, as a man pries jack-straws, he clamped his peavey and tugged sharply.
He tugged at an outsized foot dangling over the side of an upper bunk.
I lowered her zipper, she did mine, and tugged my jeans off.
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