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Example sentences for: tug

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The director has backed away from what appears to be his real, more local, theme, which is the tug of war within American Jews of his generation between a compulsion to embrace other cultures and a feeling of superiority toward them.
Hence it comes as no surprise to find in the town of Exeter a lowland called Tug Hollow .
Increased production abroad may make resources more scarce and finally tug prices upward at home.
Block Islander Ellsworth Lathan assured me that his fellow-islanders refer to peat, once widely used for fuel, as tug .
Elián has been roped into someone else's game: He is the center of an "international tug of war" in the WP lede and a front-page LAT caption, and the "center of a political tug-of-war" in the USAT . The NYT turns him into "the central object in a tug-of-war."