Words similar to pulled

Example sentences for: pulled

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

He had labored too long to make America his own to feel it pulled out from under him, even in jest.
The missile defense money has pulled the rug out from under Republicans, leaving them with the flimsiest of criticisms.
gone--that God, in His Mercy, had pulled their sick hearts out, bled them, drained them, kissed the dead weight from the bones, that I was looking at myself in rags that were my parents--when I think of them I think of my friend with no one there those hours, no one to witness, no one to take his pulse, no one to talk or listen, no one to cross his heart.
By descending on selected residential neighborhoods and ticketing all those double-parked cars, the cops have pulled a Johnny Evers.
cat whipping or whipping the cat a trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength: a wager is laid with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat.