tugged in English

verb
1
pull (something) hard or suddenly.
she tugged off her boots
synonyms:pull (at)plucktweaktwitchjerkwrenchcatch hold ofyank (at)dragpulllugdrawhaulheavetow

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1. Tom tugged at his mother's arm.

2. The woman gently tugged his arm.

3. Lustrous Jade tugged at his sleeve.

4. The letter tugged at her heartstrings.

5. The child's cries tugged at my heartstrings.

6. 5 The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor.

7. We tugged so hard that the rope broke.

8. Yet, my love for music also tugged at my heartstrings.

9. But his native India always tugged at Mr Prahalad's heartstrings.

10. The farmer tugged all his life to make a living.

11. The sight of the poor child crying tugged at my heartstrings.

12. The plight of the refugees had tugged at the nation's heart.

13. A wry smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

14. Scalzo tugged at his crotch, looking the man right in the eye.

15. The child tugged at my hand to make me go with her.

16. They nipped and bit . They clawed and gashed. They chewed and tugged.

17. As if on command, the figure on the bed tugged off his hood.

18. He tugged his ear lobe, our agreed sign for the other to remain silent.

19. The green ones held on tighter, didn't plop into her palms but had to be tugged.

20. The little child took her ear between his thumb and forefinger and tugged it playfully.

21. He tugged open the warped door and was immediately engulfed by the steam from the cauldron within.

22. Ryu Si Won - an outstanding and talented artiste whose personality and works tugged the heartstrings of many.

23. The lifeguard raised his shoulders in a musclebound shrug and tugged at the whistle around his neck.

24. Then Jack, with that bearlike hand, reached up and gently tugged Barry back onto the bench.

25. Dying of uncoolness, I tugged down my tuxedo pants to try to cover my ridiculous spats.

26. She had all but crawled downstairs to answer the imperative summons, yawning as she tugged open the door.

27. Charlie Harris was a shrewd street-seller whose appearance and demeanour tugged at the heartstrings of the compassionate.

28. He tugged off the high boots and, fumbling with the buttons, he removed his officer's grey-green trousers.

29. Once or twice he found himself tugged away on the backwash of voices, drifting here and there.

30. Little Hai - chen came over and tugged at Jui - chueh's jacket, beseeching, " Mama, let me stay too. "

31. She tugged on Hart's arm to extricate him from the circle of men with whom he'd been talking.

32. He tugged on the ends of the billowing wig and ran his hands over it, pressing it to his head.

33. His lips tugged into an amused smile, his mind telling him her head had probably made abrupt contact with their hard bedpost once again.

34. It is the wildest of the wild, a glacier- scoured terrain unmarred by roads, tugged at by wind, on the shoulder of the Continental Divide.

35. They demanded explanations from his father, raised their arms to make their points, tugged agitatedly at their beards, and moved back towards their room quite slowly.

36. David Miliband has left frontline politics – but for how long? Long gone are the days when the school bully was just the kid who called a Bespectacled student "four eyes" or annoyingly tugged on a girl's pigtails during class.