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Example sentences for: hugging

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He feels liberated but "looks like a man hugging a slot machine."
R.M. Alexander's response (Nuisance dust better than no jobs, March 2-3, 1996) to concerns raised about dust generated by a local mining operation reply in large part on irrelevant ad homonym tactics by conjuring up the Sierra Club, their tree hugging ilk, and mining jobs lost to communities elsewhere.
The images flow thick: Whitman, baseball cap and all, mingling easily at what looks like a transportation event ("what she does, she does to help New Jersey"); Whitman behind a sign that trumpets her "Work First" program, then a shot of her hugging a politically correct mix of kids ("she loves this state").
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.