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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tug.

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Examples

  • Chekov scowled, then winced and brought the cold pack up to his cheek again as the expression tugged at his bruises.

    Firestorm L.A Graf 2000

  • I was startled when she took my hand and without a word tugged me toward my car.

    The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

  • I was startled when she took my hand and without a word tugged me toward my car.

    The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

  • I was startled when she took my hand and without a word tugged me toward my car.

    The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

  • Luis says hey-hey-hey, the word tugged out of him in sharp little jerks.

    An Ugly Man Marcela Fuentes 2011

  • What of France-2, the egregious TV channel, whose amazing sequences from the West Bank, specifically, from Jenin tugged on billions of heartstrings around the world?

    What we are up against Helen 2006

  • A nice doctor-man invited us back to his office within a couple of minutes, and Her Royal Highness was unceremoniously tugged from the cat carrier -- which, in an attitude 180, she clung to as if it were the last life raft off the Titanic.

    funny ... it feels like a Monday 2004

  • Hearing his name tugged somewhere deep inside him.

    Unfinished Business Fetzer, Amy J. 2004

  • Despite everything, her devastated expression tugged at his sympathies.

    How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

  • Despite everything, her devastated expression tugged at his sympathies.

    How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

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