tug
verb (used with object)
to pull at with force, vigor, or effort.
have been tugging
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present perfect progressiveof tug.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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During my long hours of travel across the Atlantic, I worried about how this gross display may have been tugging at my mother.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Why, I must have been tugging at this precious load over four hours.
From To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by Paul Hardy
The dry-arm bones of the charnel-house in the rock may have been tugging around it when the galleys of the M'Leod hove in sight.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
