Example sentences for: dragged

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

  • This apprehension is observed by a Mr. Belmaine and mistaken by him for an indication that Neigh has been dragged into going to the church against his will “by his over-hasty wife.”

  • The classic example is the corpse of the corrupt Pope Formosus (816-896), which was exhumed and dragged through the streets of Rome.

  • In the course of a long night, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, 73 Americans were wounded, 18 were killed, and the world's television screens showed images of an American corpse dragged through the streets by exultant Somalis.

  • Indonesian soldiers stood by as thugs dragged a driver out of a truck and threatened to kill him."

  • As a Nixon speechwriter from 1969 until 1973, Safire managed to avoid being dragged into the scandal that ruined the careers of almost everyone he worked with.


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