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Example sentences for: tug

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Each couple is engaged in its own emotional tug of war but disinclined to confront their "issues" head on.
The boy, who saw his mother drown and then spent 24 hours adrift in an inner tube, is the object of an international tug of war.
The impeachment fight began when the Republicans, in their tug of war with Johnson, passed some dubious laws that shifted power from the president to Congress.
The Ocean Hawker II tug moored at Market Slip has been converted into a bar.
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."