tug
verb (used with object)
to pull at with force, vigor, or effort.
has been tugging
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present perfect progressiveof tug (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Winding around and about Southern California these past ten days of the 15,000-km relay, the path traced the same thread that has been tugging at the country since May, a trail of glad tears.
From Time Magazine Archive
The torch that Steffi Graf has been tugging at for more than a year, but that Martina Navratilova managed to hold fast last summer at both Wimbledon and the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Past time, it will be conceded, is theoretically if not actually infinite; and in all past time, nature has been tugging away at Mr. Darwin's problem of the "survival of the fittest."
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
He has been tugging at this tremendous task four years, or thereabouts.
From A New Banking System The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District by Lysander Spooner
