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Example sentences for: drag

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There are still a few bona fide fishermen about, and if you can manage to drag yourself out of bed between six and eight in the morning, you’ll see them returning to shore in their gaily painted, flat-bottomed wooden boats, with nets of sardines and anchovies.
People just get mean and depressed, and drag about sullenly hoping their spouse will be swept away by El Nino.
The story follows a bourgeois small-town couple with a dry cleaning business whose lives are turned upside down after a young drag performer they meet in a club ends up moving in with them.
If you're in the market, Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle will teach you how to 1) kill with a bayonet (thrust deep under ribs, drag in slow, deep circle to scramble organs); 2) skin a man alive (slit skin at shoulder, peel slowly down right arm); and 3) eliminate a zoo full of carnivores (four snipers per tiger best).
While comparisons between a wild type and a mutant that has been subjected to six or seven backcrosses are generally considered acceptable, there is still a small risk of linkage drag, creating the possibility that genes linked to the brown midrib genes are affecting the development.