Tugging in example sentence

The remains of my breakfast of bread and milk stood on the table, and having crumbled a morsel of roll, I was tugging at the sash to put out the crumbs on the window-sill, when Bessie came running upstairs into the nursery.

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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