tug
verb (used with object)
to pull at with force, vigor, or effort.
had tugged
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past perfectof tug.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The whereabouts of the boat which had tugged the barge are not currently known.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
If he did, if only for a split second, just because temptation had tugged his eyes to a screen, he would have seen the biggest comeback in the ninth inning or later in franchise history.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2019
It felt a little bit like someone had grabbed my belly button, like someone had tugged on it from the inside.”
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2015
The photo that had tugged at people’s hearts, of a bald boy with a shaky smile, had been pulled from the Web site of a cancer foundation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2012
The city man looked faint, but Honor and Hunter had not only watched the common and counted-on birthings farm people see, but had tugged and twisted newborns from all sorts of canals.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
