Example Sentences

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After four days of highs over 90 degrees in Seattle, the surge of cool ocean air will tug afternoon highs back down to near-normal.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

The story will tug at your heartstrings and make you laugh.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021

An actual, planned, foreseeable event will tug at his interest a lot harder than a hypothetical one.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2021

The animals are poetry in motion and will tug at viewers' hearts.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2020

I want to wake, that’s all; and whenever I turn in bed, that string will tug at my toe, and, of course, I’ll rouse up.

From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.