drag out of
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Tomlin, she noted, is one of those friends -- one she doesn’t have to drag out of the house to go to lunch.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2015
Many of them suggest what kids putting on a show might drag out of the attic: trunks, wooden crates, a grandfather clock, a dressmaker’s dummy, a stepladder.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2015
“There are only so many words I can drag out of my vocabulary to say how awful that was.”
From New York Times • May 25, 2010
He switches on his flashlight and scans the packed stairwell for anything he might drag out of it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“But if you try to lift it in, the hook will drag out of the fish’s jaws,” said the mate.
From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by Overend, William Heysham
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