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Example sentences for: tug

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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."
You Don't Tug on the Avenger's Cape
Bog iron has found its way into the dictionary (viz. Webster ), and so, too, should tug .
Hence it comes as no surprise to find in the town of Exeter a lowland called Tug Hollow .
If we annoy him, the annoyance must be somehow necessary to his pleasure, the rising of it sweeterfor the last tug of a defeated gravity--as feeblenow, as faraway, as being anybody's son or father.For he seems all gaze, nudging a dollar toward her.