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Example sentences for: hugs

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

By 1980 it was also being used widely in baseball, especially to welcome a player to the plate after a home run (and in this respect is similar to the hugs and other celebratory gestures used by British football players).
The camera hugs his long torso and ropy muscles; starkly white against the black of the sky, he seems stripped down to pure hatred.
She's Ellie (Jodie Foster), a brilliant, idealistic scientist who, when things go wrong, hugs her knees to her chest.
A few gripes from the fringes: According to the Village Voice 's Richard Gehr, although beautiful to look at, the film is "numbingly formulaic" and rife with the usual Disney clichés: "absent parents, unthreatening yet princely hero, perky but ditzy heroine, swarthy villain, cute sidekicks, hugs, lessons, and a CD's worth of forgettable pop tunes."
(The moral: Whether getting laid consistently or not, people need hugs.)