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 Hardy, Paul

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 Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)