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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tug .
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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.
Firestorm L.A Graf 2000
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I was startled when she took my hand and without a word tugged me toward my car.
The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994
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I was startled when she took my hand and without a word tugged me toward my car.
The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994
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I was startled when she took my hand and without a word tugged me toward my car.
The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994
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Luis says hey-hey-hey, the word tugged out of him in sharp little jerks.
An Ugly Man Marcela Fuentes 2011
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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?
What we are up against Helen 2006
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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.
Unfinished Business Fetzer, Amy J. 2004
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Despite everything, her devastated expression tugged at his sympathies.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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Despite everything, her devastated expression tugged at his sympathies.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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