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Example sentences for: hugging

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It was, says the Washington Post 's Lloyd Rose, the same old "people wearing dresses of varying embarrassment and crying and hugging and saying they loved each other."
Forbes' expression while McCain was hugging him recalled the scene in the novel (OK, the movie) where the savage boys requisition Piggy's eyeglasses.
He was even once seen hugging one of them.
But then it began to occur to me that if I showed up alone at a public screening of Pokémon , I would soon begin to notice the parents of children hugging their young ones close to them as they eyed me with horror and suspicion.
Emotionally, the picture plays it safe, hugging the shore.