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Sentence Examples Rachael screamed, throwing herself down next to me and grabbing my arm, tugging it. The baby proceeded to explore Nicholas, poking his face and tugging on his hair, giggling the entire time. I pulled as hard as I could, tugging his arm, trying to get him back up to the forest floor. She scrambled to her feet, but a hand clutched around her ankle, tugging her back. In idle moments, we have imagined ourselves tugging playfully at his beard, perching on his chunky thighs and goosing his ample behind. I fought my way forward, one hand tugging him onwards, the other pinning my hat to my head. I'm also cultivating a tiny beard under my lower lip but purely because I quite liked tugging on it. Scotland is just seen as great for shooting, golf and tugging your forelock, which is why so many get out. I was too busy tugging my forelock to pull her up on it, I really hate being rude to nice people. Leah's eyes flickered to him quickly, a smile tugging at her lips, before she looked back to her book. He relaxed a little and walked down the hallway to his room, tugging at his tie until the knot loosened and he could slip it off. Her face was passive and as smooth as dead marble, but even from where he was standing, he could feel the sadness tugging at her eyes. I was forever tugging at my clothes or moving to the back row when we lined up for photographs. With a propane tank over his shoulder and the little boy tugging at his arm, McCarthy swaggered towards the tracks. A bad infection can be recognized by pain experienced while chewing, or by discomfort noticed when tugging on the earlobes. She was sober, and had quite forgotten the fish that were still occasionally tugging at her hookless fly. Niguel muttered in awe, tugging at a feather, pausing, and suddenly pulling it roughly, ripping it right out. As with the cap, the loop is fairly flexible but after some tugging and pulling with the lanyard in place, the loop never tore. Slowly and carefully, she lifted it upwards, releasing the wheels from their track, and tugging the drawer free. The yaps and yowls are almost deafening, and as other sleds depart, your dogs go absolutely mental, tugging on their leads and jumping forwards. Show More Sentences And so The Wild Boy is a sad novel, tugging the heartstrings with some of the rhapsodic lachrymosity that felled Little Nell. She looked even more worn-out than ever, with her youngest child clutching her hand, tugging fiercely on it. One minor agony of growing up in Northern Ireland is the atavistic tugging of ethnic loyalty. She followed the noise to find two medium-sized dogs tugging and tearing at either end of a chew toy. I sat at the vanity table tugging a brush through my limp hair, to no avail. It is no strange sight to meet columns of foreign tourist vehicles hugging and tugging through the pass in search of the real Africa. The vagrant, who was filthy and smelled like sewage, walked alongside the man and kept tugging at his elbow while demanding money. Playfully tugging on her brown ponytail, he called for a strapless, mint green gown, a long tulle with many flounces of lace and sheer fabric. A large hand caught her arm in a firm grip and steadied her, tugging so that she could sit up properly. How selfish he must think I am, she thought irascibly, tugging her long slender fingers through her hair to unravel the lacquered knots. They were practically groping him, grabbing his shoulders and tugging on his shirt, even as he turned to leave. The darkened arched doorway yawned to her left and began to coax her in, tugging at her curiosity. When it was over last night, though, he was a kid again, running in from left field, hair flying, tugging his uniform shirt out of his pants. The wolf yelped and fell into his bonds, the chains tugging at his sore shoulders. Essential for wearing under spaghetti strap vests, it has banished the unbecoming sight of curvy women tugging up their strapless numbers. There must be someone at the centre of a web, pulling strings, yanking cords, tugging ropes and generally causing all their misery and pain or lulling them into dry boredom. Well Haley was squaring up to Jared who stood lazily in front of her unperturbed by Haley's arguing, a smirk tugging at his lips at her fieriness. Without fiscal autonomy Scots will always end up going to London furiously tugging their forelocks as they push forward the national begging bowl. The dog at his feet, who'd been sniffing at me suspiciously and tugging at its leash, gave a sudden gambol and licked my hand, barking enthusiastically. The gentle pencil allows you to line your eyes without any pulling or tugging. Show More Sentences The clove hitch rarely slips, but it can work loose with continuous tugging. So he takes to his bed and waits for the end, tugging the blankets over his head when Azrael, the angel of death decides to pay him a visit. In wind that was now unrelenting, we wrestled the nylon beast, an invisible hand tugging and bullwhipping our shelter in the wind. We see the famous commercials about dad not drinking and driving, and we see the little child on the poster tugging at our heartstrings. He has a hand on her wrist suddenly, clamped there like a manacle, and he's tugging at her, shouting in her face. As he traipsed off tugging his shirt, he looked a little unhappy. He murmured, gently tugging my arm and pulling me into his lap. If we've all done tugging our forelocks before The King's Speech, here's something rather stronger and, for my money, more compelling. Once the ground is thoroughly thawed, there they are, tugging on earthworms as though they were the hawsers of the S. S. Earth. A tennis ball is attached to the adjustable heavy-duty rope to provide a comfortable grip for swinging, throwing and tugging. Some people may feel a mild tugging sensation like you are being pulled out of your body through a tube. Avoid pulling or tugging the sling when positioning the patient in a wheelchair or bed. This may have caused the vibrations and tugging felt by the pilot and the loadmaster. Symptoms include unexplained fever, difficulty sleeping, tugging or pulling at the ears, and overall irritability. Thus adolescents trying to break out of the family sphere of influence are tugging at their deepest roots. For more than eighty years now, media coverage about cannabis has been tugging at the strings of emotion, instead of reliable information. There remains for some, however, a tugging sense of guilt that the time and expense given for this type of reflection might be a bit of a luxury. Nonetheless, he has taken some solid hits, and there is a drunken, halting roll to his steps as he staggers towards the prize, tugging at the webbing of his uniform. She smiled and walked over to him, casually leaning on the back on his chair and playfully tugging at his shoulder length rat-tail as she looked at the screen. Before he knew it, a fish was tugging on the line, and he reeled it in. Show More Sentences I could not grab hold of the tail of his shirt, tugging him toward me as I would have if he were still a small boy running heedless of danger into a busy street. Even with all her comforts and a constant, tugging ennui, Mei knows the risks that she faces as an ernai. Those images stayed with her, tugging at her, she says, to go back one day and help. There already is lots of pulling and tugging all over the map with little to show for it. If the tide is not tugging too fiercely at your fins by now, you might wish to continue sternwards and view the most impressive area of the wreck. By recording the motion of the sunlike star HD 70642 for 5 years, scientists have discerned that an unseen planet at least twice as massive as Jupiter is tugging on it. This tidal force, almost 400 times greater than that of Earth's moon tugging at our oceans, dominates near surface winds on Titan and sculpts dunes that are up to 100m high. Associated hydrating and alleviating agents, it restores the cutaneous barrier thus and removes the feelings of irritation and tugging related to care draining the skin. Intervention in many-sided conflicts is inherently very much more complex and likely to get you dragged in, not as the impartial mediator and peacekeeper but rather with all sides tugging at you to exploit you. With this cable you can do just that: It can take a lot of tugging, bending, and rough wear and tear. This is important when it is installed on light traverses with sharp edges. Each drive bay is removed by simply tugging on the latch. Call it a sixth sense, but there are moments when Lost in Showbiz feels the hands of its readers tugging imploringly at its sleeve, their faces upturned, their eyes beseeching, an urgent question forming on their lips. Throughout, the investigation churns on, tugging us along with it. However, the material between Mars and Jupiter was prevented from condensing into a planet by the gravitational tugging of Jupiter, which is the biggest planet in the Solar System. With the 1 Voice Headband, figuring where to put your phone or Mp3 player for minimum tugging and popping out of earbuds no longer is an issue. The brain reigns supreme, tugging the mind along in its wake. It's important to be attuned to other symptoms the child is experiencing, he says, such as changes in eating habits, vomiting or diarrhea, difficulty breathing, tugging or complaining about ears, or changes in skin color. I would be very happy to swear allegiance to democracy, human rights and to my constituents, but I am not very happy about the idea of tugging my forelock to an unelected monarch. Developers shamelessly entice buyers by tugging at their heartstrings. There were families tugging toddlers in carts, uniform teens in denim shorts and floral headwear, jaunty groups of 20-somethings and older couples using walking sticks to negotiate the mud. Show More Sentences After the 3 to 11 shift come on I'm freed up to do my duty supervisor bit, but straight away this frail old bird's tugging my sleeve with her trembly hand. It's like using a Ouija board, but instead of a little wooden planchette you are tugging at a two-hundred-dollar piece of technology that contains your entire existence. The PUR-jacket and the wire insulation made of special TPE-Hytrel® is made for extreme applications, i.e. bending, dragging on the ground, and even strong tugging cannot harm this cable. He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter. This squeaky plush toy can be used for tugging, throwing or chewing. To conclude, it is this heartless Conservative government without any vision that is causing unacceptable harm to the people of Quebec, thereby tugging at the heartstrings of our friends from the Bloc Québécois. These prickling and tugging sensations will rapidly ease as the days pass. I looked at his normally deadpan face and saw the faintest outline of a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth, a cheeser grin on anyone else. They then examined the tapes, looking for points where children used force, either by tugging or grabbing an object held by their friends or by hitting, kicking, or pushing. She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans. Once prey is brought down, wolves begin to feed excitedly, ripping and tugging at the carcass in all directions, and bolting down large chunks of it. Examples from Classical Literature The road agent was tugging at the stone beneath which he had slipped his bridle. At his heels followed his bedraggled, snaggle-toothed wife, a babe in her arms and another tugging at her skirts. The violin fairly sobbed and groaned and wailed, as if the spirit of unconsolable grief were tugging heavily at the strings. Having careered, plunging and tugging and side-stepping, until she was astraddle of the outside trace, Jenny stopped. And all the while I was tugging at my box of attic salt, to get it open, to get a pinch. Raul dismounted in front of a doorless hut, and began to pull off his corn sack, tugging at the leather thongs and henequen cords. Besides, though Cassy had laughed, there had been a tugging at her heartstrings. An instant later there was a mad tugging at the front door bell, and an insaner clatter at the knocker. Fearful tugging, swagging and swaying is conceivable, in this Sterbohol problem! While the sound is being made, there will be a slight upward pulling of the voice box, a slight tugging at the voice box. She sits very squat, for the balloons are always tugging at her, and the strain has given her quite a red face. It was no easy task, the full pails tugging most unmercifully at his arms. Huck started sorrowfully away, and Tom stood looking after him, with a strong desire tugging at his heart to yield his pride and go along too. The Great Lie by Myrrha Stanford-Smith Kempe was bowing low and tugging at Nick's jacket. In another moment a score of willing hands were tugging it earthward. A congregation of horses, tied to a long railing, were tugging frenziedly at their bridles. Sydney Barnes smiled, and left off nervously tugging at his moustache. Having seen the cormorants, they begin tugging excitedly at their jesses. Hines he hurt my wrist dreadful pulling and tugging so, and I reckon he clean forgot I was in the world, he was so excited and panting. Slowly, Galusha, tugging the suitcase, stumbled to the edge of the piazza. Show More Sentences It represented an osprey tugging a fish from some sea rocks. Xavier must have been also, because according to his biographers, he didn't warm up to Loyola right away and resisted Loyola's tugging at his spiritual conscience. Find more words! 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