drag out of

British  

verb

1. Also: drag from.  to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force

   we dragged the name out of him

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Example Sentences

The play contains a twist that wild horses couldn’t drag out of me, but how convinced you’ll be depends on your willingness to succumb to a plot that has been carefully programmed to ratchet up the dramatic tension.

From Los Angeles Times

"It will be very different from the Democrats, where you saw them drag out, of course, the Hollywood celebrities like they like to do," Trump said.

From Fox News

By dragging one on top of the other in the inventory, they’d combine into a single key, which you could then drag out of the inventory to unlock a door.

From The Verge

“The two main things are the continued drag out of the agreement with China. There’s lots of talk out of the administration but it’s always just ahead of us. It’s definitely negative the impeachment process and the hearings even though I don’t think there’s any doubt Republicans in the Senate will support it. Just the process of doing it shows investors the government is relatively dysfunctional.”

From Reuters

Three minutes ago you were tussling down inside the sentences, trying to drag out of the air the perfectly right words to express a mood, or catch a person’s physical presence or a place’s, or trying to find the perfectly right thing for your character to say.

From The Guardian