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tug sentence examples

  • Tug on the heartstrings of labor voters.
  • Tug at the heartstrings.
  • She set out with 29 hands from cardiff for bombay with coals, initially being towed by two tugs.
  • Almost immediately i felt the sharp biting tugs from the waiting fish.
  • My great-uncle, captain henry mackenzie, used to tow the whale catching boats with his ocean-going tug ' forager ' .
  • Tug boat pilots saved the titanic from serious harm.
  • Orkney and shetland are to get all year round salvage tug cover from next year.
  • Tug of war ensued, neither of us being the winner.
  • Tugs on the rope, the diver can communicate at a basic level with the surface diver.
  • Tugs at the heart strings.
  • At the great distances of the oort cloud, comets can be affected by the gentle gravitational tugs of nearby passing stars.
  • A powerful paddle steam tug, conqueror, tried to haul europa free.
  • A pull is a long tug of the rope, whereas a bell is a short, sharp tug of the rope.
  • Remove them with a sharp upwards tug, you can place your fingers on the gravel to prevent the bulbs being pulled up.
  • By the lock is a steam tug, see detail below.
  • With a gentle tug you can then remove the bottom case of the imac.
  • The rozi was a 40 meter harbor tug deliberately sunk in 1991 as an attraction for the operators of glass-bottomed boats.
  • When a slight tug on the cable fully engaged our hapless driver's brakes he didn't even notice.
  • More distressing news came from the skipper of the rescue tug.
  • Early in 2001 bw were testing taking trains of boats through standedge tunnel using electric tugs.

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