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Example sentences for: tug

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Peat bogs, where tug lies waiting, occur in the lowest land around.
Each couple is engaged in its own emotional tug of war but disinclined to confront their "issues" head on.
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.
Perhaps this is a tug of war where the rope is, symbolically, dental floss.