Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of tug.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chekov scowled, then winced and brought the cold pack up to his cheek again as the expression tugged at his bruises.
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I was startled when she took my hand and without a word tugged me toward my car.
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Luis says hey-hey-hey, the word tugged out of him in sharp little jerks.
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What of France-2, the egregious TV channel, whose amazing sequences from the West Bank, specifically, from Jenin tugged on billions of heartstrings around the world?
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A nice doctor-man invited us back to his office within a couple of minutes, and Her Royal Highness was unceremoniously tugged from the cat carrier -- which, in an attitude 180, she clung to as if it were the last life raft off the Titanic.
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Hearing his name tugged somewhere deep inside him.
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Despite everything, her devastated expression tugged at his sympathies.
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Each wounded word tugged at the door, but something in her strove to keep it shut.
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Amanda looked up and smiled, and that trusting, loving expression tugged at her heart.
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Instead all the instruments were turned off so that ground stations could listen for a pure radio signal of how Phobos "tugged" on the spacecraft.
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