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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of haul.

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Examples

  • April 14th, 2010 11: 17 am ET it was said that Ms. Palin hauled in a cool 12 million this year alone.

    Palin plans 'aggressive' fundraising push 2010

  • Air Force had scored just minutes earlier when Kyle Lumpkin hauled in an 8-yard touchdown pass from Smith.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • The fishermen were catching Patagonian toothfish, sold under the name Chilean sea bass, south of New Zealand "and the squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled from the deep," Anderton said.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Robert Meachem caught touchdown passes of 4 and 5 yards, and Jayson Swain hauled in another for 5 yards from Ainge.

    USATODAY.com - College Football - Air Force vs. Tennessee 2006

  • The old soldiers found his purchases, seized them, and again hauled Kiril into the boiler room for a beating.

    A Russian Soldier’s Story 2006

  • The old soldiers found his purchases, seized them, and again hauled Kiril into the boiler room for a beating.

    A Russian Soldier’s Story 2006

  • That Canadian wheat for export through United States ports was hauled from the head of Lake Superior to Toledo, Cleveland, Fairport, Erie and Buffalo, and then shipped by United States railroads to the United States Atlantic Coast.

    A Troubled Artery 1966

  • Somebody digs the anthracite coal in Pennsylvania and it is shipped across to us at great expense and trouble, and hauled from the coal dealers to our cellars, and carried on a man's back and dumped into our coal bins, and someone shovels it into the furnace and afterwards shovels out the ashes, and then a man comes along and dumps the ashes into a cart and carries it off.

    The Mineral Resources of Ontario 1905

  • Mr. Gordon is so careful about accidents that he has the chain hauled over and examined every twelve hours, and a prize is given to any one who can find a faulty link; yet in spite of all this from time to time it will break away.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • The clowns jump on the dead beast, and it is hauled from the ring.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

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