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Example sentences for: tug

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These days, most offer only a gentle tug in the opposite direction.
Under the novel's sometimes placid surface is a tug of war, which Wyler made palpable but which Holland must think will dramatize itself.
Who knows, perhaps the arduous haul gave rise to the term tug?
If you want the entire history of pop music on one single--the tug between its highest aspirations and its basest instincts--Sinatra wrapped it up in 1951: on the B side, "I'm a Fool to Want You," an almost painfully exposed ballad that today ranks as one of his greatest recordings; but, on the A side ...
It's now so hard to steer this huge truck that I have to put my foot up on the dash or on the door to tug the wheel in the direction I need it to go.