Tugging in example sentence

I then sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room; and when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging at knots and strings as I best might, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.

More example sentences with word tugging

When a chemical signal washes up on one side, it triggers the cell to expand its shape on that side, because the cell is constantly touching and tugging at the environment.

So this makes quantifying silk properties by methods such as tensile testing, which is basically, you know, tugging on one end of the fiber, very amenable.

So maybe you get into things like high-powered lasers or tugging using nets or tethers, as crazy as those sound in the short term.

Here's another example, where Eric is tugging on the robot as it goes up the stairs.

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