Example sentences for: drag

How can you use “drag” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You've seen this sort of picture before: People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.

  • Depending on the club, the show may feature flamenco performances, drag acts, or shows with semi-nude women.

  • 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).

  • Washington, D.C.'s top DJ, Doug Tracht (a k a "The Greaseman") was fired for joking about the Texas racial murder . Shock jock Tracht played a song by a black hip-hop artist and then joked, "No wonder people drag them behind trucks."

  • Fortunately, not all Web weather is such a drag.


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