How To Use Dragging In A Sentence

In many ways, dragging is to gravity what magnetism is to electricity.
His work has been dragging behind recently.
This may have the advantage of dragging the opponent onto unfamiliar territory. Times, Sunday Times
Practically speaking, all the stops that require dragging the wheels will put a bigger dent in your wallet since wheels cost a bundle.
A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood. Confessions of a Beachcomber

Weiss stiffened in his boots, the scar dragging down his eye seemed to pulsate. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
She stopped her excited babble and grabbed my wrist, dragging me off to math class.
Dragging the quilt around her she climbed out of bed and going to the east-facing window, she peered out. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
One mammoth cloud lay half-way across the sky, a big fleecy blanket, dragging its train. DANSVILLE
It is an image of a sleek chrome bullet-train of genre dragging up dead leaves and detritus from the mainstream tracks as it rockets relentlessly forward. Why Do I Infernokrush?
She moved, instead, past her mother's room and to her own, the hem of her fine red dress dragging, wet and dirty, on the clean floor behind her.
A violent accession of noise proclaimed that the mob had broken through and was dragging a scab from a wagon. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him.
The issue is quite complicated enough, without dragging in the argument about the effects on wildlife.
Living and working in London you become accustomed to freaks, weirdos and nutters wandering about doing their own thing and occasionally dragging normal people into random conversations.
Her propeller shaft was fouled and she was dragging her anchor, so Endurance, some 25 miles away when the call went out, closed in at top speed to act as on-scene commander.
Others chat about the supposed late-night spotting of a large rat dragging a six-pack of bottled water across the warehouse floor.
The dispute between management and doctors has been dragging on for a number of years, since a review of medical services within the State's prisons.
Like so many failed expeditions before them, Sir John and his men would be fleeing for their lives, dragging longboats and whalers and hastily clabbered-together sledges across the rotten ice, praying for open leads and then cursing them when the sledges fell through the ice and the contrary winds blew the heavy boats back on the pack ice, leads that meant days and nights of rowing for the starving men. The Terror
And as suddenly as it had started, it broke away as Claire slipped out of bed, dragging the top sheet with her as a loose wrap.
The school accused the Council of dragging its heels over a replacement for a flat roof which was constantly being patched up because of leaks.
God damn that Chabon, dragging it out of the grave where she and the other serious writers had buried it to save serious literature from its polluting touch, the horror of its blank, pustular face, the lifeless, meaningless glare of its decaying eyes! Writing
The report accuses the ombudsman of ignoring evidence, dragging out investigations for years and being biased in favour of the NHS. Times, Sunday Times
After years of foot-dragging and political interference, Japan is finally moving to clear its books of bad loans, while China has barely begun.
Some of them stumbled back the way they had come, dragging frozen tanks and trucks out of ice and snowdrifts.
Internet Radio stations are added by browsing to the website, and dragging the icon of the desired station into the drop window.
Bureaucratic foot-dragging delayed the formal opening of an investigation for months.
Patients, who [plantiffs 'attorneys] contend did not receive showers on a regular basis, walked around with catheters leaking and dragging on the ground, had wounds left untreated and were forced to sit in soiled bed sheets for hours or, in some cases, even days. Lisa Derrick: More Than Marijuana: Humboldt County DA Wins Big for Seniors
To be honest it's no time at all before I'm completely disorientated and it's only thanks to David literally dragging me around that we make it from one underwater location to another.
He once said to me ‘I can't understand fellows pulling and dragging at a player, if you go for a ball don't waste petrol, make one journey.’
Like the good retriever he is, Baxter pulls at the woman's clothing, dragging her into Frank's view.
Children ran down the streets, throwing confetti and screaming at the top of their lungs, dragging toy trains and teddy bears behind them.
The issue is quite complicated enough, without dragging in the argument about the effects on wildlife.
His long-nailed, perfectly manicured white hands clutched at her, dragging the mantle off her face.
Dragging his shell along, the turtle continues his journey.
The horse slipped and fell with Shmulik under him, dragging him as he slid on rocky ground.
An arm wriggled under one of his knees, and after a bit of work, she shoved it free and raised it to grab a hunk of hair, dragging at his head.
Kathryn jumped and the gelding spooked as well, shying a few paces to the left and dragging Kathryn with him.
No riders seemed to have gone down as a result of those knuckle-dragging dolts.
With the considerable football hype that is pulling and dragging at his sporting consciousness, it is vital that the senior hurlers are not overlooked.
Instead they're cheerfully sparking more cigarettes and dragging in chairs for a better view. Times, Sunday Times
A high wind is dragging a blanket of dust across the flat openness of these fields.
I actually liken you to Tom Lloyd and Don Juan, two newly joined knuckle dragging monosynaptic fools that couldn't put a rational thought together even working in tandem. Home
Enough foot-dragging and quibbles about ‘historic orthodoxy’.
It has been a failure of all us atheistical Darwinists intent on dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the 1860s, and out of the clutches of the religion-be-deviled proudly ignorant dark-age-living creationists. David Horton: And then god said, "Let there ... oh, you already have life"
The crew made a distress call after their 47 foot yacht started dragging its anchor and was in danger of going ashore onto the rocks.
Verek was walking with difficulty, dragging a body along side him.
years of dragging war
The report accuses the ombudsman of ignoring evidence, dragging out investigations for years and being biased in favour of the NHS. Times, Sunday Times
Planes dragging vapour trails coming in from across the world. Times, Sunday Times
I feel like dragging them bodily behind the bar and squeezing till their pips squeak. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever kind of original shenanigans went on, she's been foot-dragging and changing her story about what she did.
Any borderman who had ever seen a mountain cat fight a bear and win would have nodded in recognition as Cathan pounced on the hulking patriarch, knocking him sideways then dragging him down onto the ground. Chosen Of The Gods
One last stop is required, right about the time my feet begin to hurt and my shopping bag is dragging along the ground.
As mentioned on Friday, I've been a wee bit tired of late, something that's been dragging on and off since before Xmas and it's getting a bit annoying all told.
The bizcacha has one very singular habit; namely, dragging every hard object to the mouth of its burrow: around each group of holes many bones of cattle, stones, thistle-stalks, hard lumps of earth, dry dung, etc., are collected into an irregular heap, which frequently amounts to as much as a wheelbarrow would contain. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
It came to me this morning as I was hunting in my pant drawers dragging out pair after pair of tired old greying holey stretched trunks that what I really wanted was a much sexier choice.
John Lloyd Stephens had christened the town Aspinwall, but the Colombians had insisted on calling it Colón, for Columbus, and so a silly dispute had been dragging on ever since. The Path Between the Seas
The nameless jillaroo ground the vehicle forward, dragging the next crate to the open end. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
I jumped up and high tailed it out of there faster than a speeding bullet, grabbing Melanie's hand and dragging her away with me.
Yes, a dark-haired, humanly-dressed faerie was dragging the pen back and forth, scratching out words onto the paper.
Mark stepped off of the train, his eyes slightly drooping, and his black high-tops dragging behind him on the floor.
The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near. Far from the Madding Crowd
But the administration is not alone in its foot-dragging.
With its orchestral arrangements, dragging tempos and saccharine delivery, it seems less like pop music than easy listening.
A moment later he had been dragging her, tray and all, through one of the doors into the vast ballroom.
I got up, dragging the base of the corded phone across my floor so I could reach my closet, and began rifling through the shirts on the shelf.
Mechanically he ran the rope under the sleeve of his life-jacket; a mighty jerk seemed likely to pull him in halves as the smack sheered; then a heavy, dragging pain came -- he was being torn, torn, _torn_. A Dream of the North Sea
Despite the flimsiness of their tent, the Jouberts say they've never been attacked by lions, and only once by a thirsty elephant who tried to steal their water, dragging their accommodations, apparently while they were outside, into a dry riverbed. Directing Traffic on Safari
And see you not how the mighty engine of _moral power_ is dragging in its rear the Bible and peace societies, anti-slavery and temperance, sabbath schools, moral reform, and missions? or to adopt another figure, do not these seven philanthropic associations compose the beautiful tints in that bow of promise which spans the arch of our moral heaven? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Others chat about the supposed late-night spotting of a large rat dragging a six-pack of bottled water across the warehouse floor.
The authorities are dragging their feet over banning cigarette advertising.
When the snapping feature is enabled it pulls your playhead to the nearest edit, or when dragging clips, "magnetically" pulls them together. Doggdot.us
The animal threw up its forelegs and plunged ahead in a frantic lopsided gallop, kicking like a donkey, dragging the carriage from one side of the highway to the other.
The sail was dragging through the water.
Yes | No | Report from bailor 09 wrote 1 year 6 days ago to michcitydds just work out at home by going out and taking a sack with sand or dirt in it and go for a walk pulling the sack. this will get you in great dragging shape. First serious bow?q
The fact that Naik still gives it primacy is appropriate, since we have persisted in dragging this rotting carcass of a social structure with us into the new century.
But this afternoon while the assayer was dragging you out of the prospect hole, and I was watching through your field glasses, I happened to turn them in the direction of the pesthouse, and there he was again, humped up on the doorsill, watching through glasses of his own. Tabitha's Vacation
I love to pack mashy suppers and get all dirty and hot dragging them to the beach, and I love to stuff my own Undertow
Dima smiled and grabbed Coral by his shirt collar, dragging so close to her that he almost choked on her rancid breath.
Jonathon Milne then lists all the sad chooks, dragging their tails as they sleep walk their way to defeat.
He shuffled his way around the streets dragging his right leg behind him, a bit like "the mummy" in the old movies, puffing away at a dowt he had picked up in the gutter and wearing a cloth cap and raggy clothes.
Arrow with a straight arrowhead. Adjust the arrow by dragging a control handle or selection handle.
This New Year crept in sheepishly dragging behind it last year's pain. Happy? New Year
I feel like dragging them bodily behind the bar and squeezing till their pips squeak. Times, Sunday Times
Frequently dragging the sleeves of our flight suits across our brows during the start. and runup sequences, we broiled in the aircraft and stopped sweating only at Flight Level 290.
Some have a couple of shipping container loads dragging at their heels.
They were dragging a naked body by a rope down the street. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Some, including both our witnesses, cursed us between gasps of breath for dragging them up ‘some crazy hill’ on a hot summer's day.
We've all seen it: a mother crouched on the floor, arms outstretched, cooing to her baby as he lopsidedly plops first one hand, then the other, on the carpet, dragging his chubby knees behind him.
Another man then appeared and smashed him across his left arm with an iron cosh, before dragging him out and throwing him to the ground.
Those were the conditions under which certain picked British soldiers, one of whom was an old friend of ours, lost sight of for a considerable time, were dragging their nuggar up a series of cataracts. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor.
Now the management is avoiding fulfilment of its duties toward the workers and unfairly dragging out the negotiations, he claimed.
The workers had begun to remove the supports about her hull in order to free the cradle that held her and begin dragging her onto the tide flats.
I climbed around under the tree, dragging the rake along with me.
Ben was quiet, he continued with his pizza slowly, dragging the process out just to watch her squirm.
Fortunately, a more efficient system is finally on the doorstep of America's most stubborn, foot-dragging, reactionary sector—government at the local, state and especially federal levels—and its officially authorized, customer-hating agents, the Democrats and Republicans. Death of the Duopoly
The pulse was dragging him in, into that horrid rhythm, now dead, now living.
Done -- unjoint it and put it in its case, and not go dragging up everything along the bank like a living stump-puller. At the Foot of the Rainbow
Three - sided equilateral triangle that can be customized by dragging any selection handle.
The latest deadweight dragging us closer to phrenology is "evolutionary psychology," or the science formerly known as sociobiology, which studies the evolutionary roots of human behavior. Just-so stories from evolutionary psychology: Why kids don’t eat their vegetables
Wherefore the shaman and Tummasook, who is chief, have put their heads together, and it has been decreed that we work with the women and children in dragging in the meat and tending the wants of the hunters. ' A HYPERBOREAN BREW
Telling my parents ‘No’ is like talking to a steamroller: they don't listen, and insist on plowing you over or dragging you along whether you like it or not.
Your coat's dragging in the mud.
First came a short, stout black woman dressed like a hooker, shirt buttons undone, hair wild and dishevelled, dragging a scuffed duffel bag by its long loop.
We heard the tables being broken down, then the dragging and scraping of the trestles against the stone floor.
A more efficient system is on the doorstep of our most stubborn, foot-dragging sector: government. Death of the Duopoly
At one point I was hooking fish and dragging them over the back of an alligator.
Pick the chair up instead of dragging it behind you!
Sad days when our only sign of pleasure is the hope of dragging Sligo down with us.
I struggled through on belly and elbows, cobwebs dragging at my hair.
Anchoring in Bressay Sound to the south of Lerwick, they have a habit of dragging anchor in heavy storms and failing to get their engines started due to sloppy maintenance.
The two men were intertangled and down among the furniture, and then Omne had locked an arm around Kirk and was scuttling crabwise to one side, dragging the Human in front of him toward the cover of a big couch. The Price of the Phoenix
I put my arms on a choice piece of rock and heaved, dragging my body up while my feet unsuccessfully tried to locate footholds.
Under the dragging good beans and eggplant strips, add appropriate amount of salt, a little sugar, stir well, sprinkle a little chicken, white pepper pot.
The most prominent symptoms of polypoid growths are hemorrhage, which is almost invariably present, leucorrhea, pain, backache, and a sense of weight and dragging in the pelvis. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Trade with you, Bobby," called a freckle-faced boy, dragging an old tin tray. Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun
THE Government are disgracefully dragging their feet over banning the deadly drug meow meow. The Sun
Britain in Europe has had its bust-ups with Mr Brown, arguing either he was dragging his feet over entry to the euro or playing to the Euro-sceptic gallery ahead of key EU finance ministers' meetings.
During their slow, toilful walks she appeared to be dragging with her for a penance the burden of that infirm bulk. To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad
I'm not sure if I was meant to pay but I ‘slipped’ in through the back door dragging my far-too-heavy case and plonked myself down… have a feeling that was not the thing to do but I was gonna claim ignorance being a Brit in a strange country!
On the role Baxter has played in dragging British skiing in a forward direction, he is characteristically modest.
But I must tell you frankly one of the reasons why this investigation was dragging for so long is that we lacked sufficient evidence.
Several boys began to sing along in a mocking tone, dragging out the word doll until it became two syllables: “William wants a do-oll, William wants a do-oll.” Failing at FAIRNESS
However, to date, the provincial government is dragging its travois, so to speak.
I jarred him awake and made my apologies to her before dragging the very intoxicated churl into his room.
She reached for her bag and tore at the zip, dragging a T-shirt and jumper out.
Bosses say that the firefighters are dragging their heels over their side of the bargain, an agreement to adopt more modern working practices.
Something in the water had wrapped its arms or tentacles around his legs and was dragging him down despite his efforts.
It includes such functions as dragging icons between folders, resizing windows inside the browser, sorting data easily and the like.
His excuses included that he was tired, his girlfriend was dragging him to meet with the caterer or he didn't want to go outside in the rain.
One the quack is perfected, the greeting call can be made by dragging the quack out. The nunber two reason hunters walk out of the duck woods empty handed.
He took a step, dragging his lame leg behind him.
This heat wave has everyone dragging around.
Unfortunately, widespread foot-dragging continues to act as a brake on debt relief.
Hauling himself up on his walker he edged painfully out of the living room into the hallway, dragging his legs behind him.
Such foot-dragging has delayed its opening, previously scheduled for this week, to the end of the month.
People like him are in danger of dragging us back into the dark ages. The Sun
But marching at ease was such a singularly inappropriate expression for men who were dragging a heavy nuggar up a cataract under a blazing sun that there was a general laugh, and even Tarrant relaxed into a grin. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
She had disappeared into one of the bedrooms and was dragging clothes out of the drawers of a chest.
He came in, dragging his three children behind him.
After all the man had done for him, how could he whine and snivel and ask for more, dragging him down with demands?
The company blamed widespread illegal mining in Bangka Belitung province for oversupplying the tin market and dragging the price of the commodity down.
Steve is mistaken to think that Schroeder's foot-dragging can't be explained by domestic purposes alone.
It was the only band I could come up with, but man; it was like the needle dragging across the record.
Iprocessing files via Wordpad by dragging them on to its icon than by launching the program that created the file.
You go down to the beach in a group after dark and wait patiently until the turtles turn up - big, lumbering, shelled shapes, dragging themselves over the sand.
I cheat by precooking the meats and dragging them across the coals. Chopped vegetable, watermelon and feta salad | smitten kitchen
It's not half so mysterious when you've got a horde of parents dragging screaming kids around it.
Things they would watch for included smoke or fire from a hot box, shifted loads, dragging equipment, evidenced by signs of freshly damaged ties etc. as seen from a rearward look.
But his pride is already chasing after the mope, dragging all the rest of him along with it. Stop! (Pant) In the (gasp) name of (wheeze) the Law!
When Khálid bin Abdallah al-Kasri218 was Emir of Bassorah, there came to him one day a company of men dragging a youth of exceeding beauty and lofty bearing and perfumed attire; whose aspect expressed good breeding, abundant wit and dignity of the gravest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The squad were filmed dragging the suspect away as his pals protested. The Sun
The old man grabbed hold of it and tugged it from its confinement, dragging it out into the driveway.
People like him are in danger of dragging us back into the dark ages. The Sun
Pluto said he might, if he could overcome Cerberus without weapons; and this he did, struggling with the dog, with no protection but the lion's skin, and dragging him up to the light, where the foam that fell from the jaws of one of the three mouths produced the plant called aconite, or hellebore, which is dark and poisonous. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
At first, he considered yanking her up and dragging her out, but that was too easy.
Weiss stiffened in his boots, the scar dragging down his eye seemed to pulsate. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The following video, made by Telekinesishd, a production company based in Barranquilla, shows the water dragging away a full size pickup truck. Global Voices in English » Colombia: Living with Flooding in Barranquilla
CARLSBAD- A Carlsbad woman faces charges of evading and obstructing an officer after being apprehended for dragging another woman into a residence against her will and threatening the victim's family members with a bat. Carlsbad Current-Argus Most Viewed
Though he stoops over as if gravity is dragging down his meaty shoulders, Rod standing tall is six feet six inches and 270 pounds.
No more feet dragging, just a quick up or downvote. The Volokh Conspiracy » On Eric Liu on Goodwin Liu
Homesongs, the solo debut from ex-Fridge bassist Adem Ilhan, gives his lonely heart its own club band, but unfortunately, these dragging, faceless roots-tinged dirges fail.
A Spanish soldier is represented dragging a fugitive Indian from a lake by a lasso around his neck; while on the shore stands a monk ready to baptize the recreant on his arrival!” [ Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
Hold your maximum position for 15 to 30 seconds, then come up with an inhalation by pressing actively through the back heel and dragging the coccyx first down and then into the pelvis.
Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse.
THE Government are disgracefully dragging their feet over banning the deadly drug meow meow. The Sun
Dragging myself ungracefully to my feet, I froze again, listening for any noise, waiting for anyone to come and check what the commotion was about.
Their role will be complementary to police officers, but the main aim is to offer a reassurance to the public and tackle the kind of anti-social behaviour that is dragging down so many neighbourhoods, towns and cities.
Bonus points for dragging much-neglected "contumely" out of retirement, but otherwise it's babbling-as-usual over at the Pod Works. Ellis Weiner: Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry?
Why do you have to keep dragging up my divorce?
The rot spreads, mould covering the sheen of life, dragging it down with cloying, asphyxiating stealth.
Buncan tried to picture the great rhino dragging a plow, furrow after endless furrow, while some ill-tempered fanner trailing behind berated him with orders and curses in equal measure. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
I haven't the time to waste dragging her to Hythria by force, at any rate. TREASON KEEP
For a woman dragging a couple tons of silicone around in her bra, and wearing enough florescent hair extensions to weave a festive area rug, to accuse another woman of "fakeness" seems to me an ill-selected shot. Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : I, Boobiac!
To be honest, I think it had more to do with mousing around my screen than dragging myself up and down a swimming pool, but either way it's probably just as well I never made it back there this evening.
Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.
The centre of the ring, which is 12 billion miles wide, is offset slightly from the star, suggesting that gravity of unseen planets is dragging it askew.
To reveal the offense would mean dragging his family into an obligatory vendetta.
For as the reins give no trouble to the charioteer, but the charioteer is the cruise of all the mischief through his not holding them properly: (and therefore do they often exact a penalty of him, entangling themselves with him, and dragging him on, and compelling him to partake in their own mishap:) so is it also in the case before us. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
Perhaps the most singular habit of the _biscacha_ is its collecting every loose article which chances to be lying near, and dragging all up to its burrow; by the mouth of which it forms a heap, often as large as the half of a cart-load dumped carelessly down. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
It is not unusual to see smokers dragging on cigarettes between mouthfuls at meals.
THE Government are disgracefully dragging their feet over banning the deadly drug meow meow. The Sun
Planes dragging vapour trails coming in from across the world. Times, Sunday Times
Dragging into man's new year a burden, a hurt and rage that rides the blood the length and breadth of me, returning to the heart to only reinfuse itself with life and cycle through again. Resolutions for a Rangergirl
She is dragging her heels because she wants the first single to be an absolute belter. The Sun
Eighty miles, yet they were clear with the clearness that only altitudinous country can bring; alluring, fascinating, beckoning to him until his being rebelled against the comparative slowness of the train, and the minutes passed in a dragging, long-drawn-out sequence that was almost an agony to Robert Fairchild. The Cross-Cut
We must not trifle with the people's trust by foot-dragging.
Depending on the severity of a collision you will end up with crumpled doors, shattered glass or even bumpers and skirts dragging in a trail of sparks behind you.
She could’ve given us away if the pothunter hadn’t been making so much noise dragging out the packrat rubbish. KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE
Should we be dragging our sons away from their phones and laptops or letting them wander free in cyberspace? Times, Sunday Times
They can take the two seats if they overcome the risk of dragging each other down.
It was no easy task to carry, half dragging it, the heavy body of Mr. Damon off the platform, but the aeronaut was a muscular individual, and long hanging from a trapeze, at great heights, stood him in good stead. Tom Swift and His Airship
In 1872, despite a case of epizootic influenza that basically sidelined all the fire department's horses, the city didn't want to rent horses to pull fire engines, deciding that it was better to send an officer to see if it merited dragging a hose to the fire, leaving the engine in the house. This Day in History, 1904: General Slocum Tragedy
A Berber in scarlet livery brought in a yearling bear on a chain, dragging its paws on the floor and growling.
Within a week of his yarding he had taught us so much, inspired us with such confidence in his resourcefulness and ability, that we resolved to give him a treat in the plantation dragging round a miniature disc-harrow, a particular brand of agricultural implement known as the “pony dot.” My Tropic Isle
It's the high fever that's been dragging him down.
‘Not there,’ she groaned, grabbing my forearm and dragging me away from the pink pouf monstrosity that hung in the store window.
What some call foot-dragging Mrs Merkel regards as creative obstruction. The Economist: Daily news and views

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