How To Use Hugging In A Sentence

Sasaki huddled against the hot grains of sand, gritting her teeth, curled up in a ball and hugging her shoulders as if to keep herself from ripping apart.
Figure-hugging silhouettes are accented by zippered pockets, panels and side vents.
After he did this he pulled me closer, hugging me tightly against him.
I'm hugging myself at the thought of seeing him again so soon.
In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she couldn't drag her eyes away.

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Some were attired in figure-hugging minis, some were dressed in sparkling evening wear and a few in casuals.
I had to grin, she looked kind of cute with red cheeks, shoveling food in her mouth while hugging herself and desperately trying to avoid my gaze.
She hunkers down slightly further away, hugging her legs with both arms and asking brightly: ‘What were you going to say to Sharon?’
I sighed, rolled my head around to look at her: huddled up into her corner of the carriage, hugging her knees with feet on the upholstery.
There was a roomful of ecstatic people with a lot of hugging, crying and drinking. The Sun
Manda noticed the front door was opened, and she heard a faint sound of a motorboat, chugging through the water.
It was the most boring two hours I'd ever spent in a theater, nothing but these wrinkled old bags in Indian hats hugging each other and crying.
As we left the courthouse, Hubby and Wifey and their kids pounced on us, hugging us and crying.
They were being subversive and celebratory at the same time and there was also something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud.
He was almost last out of traps but hugging the rails enjoyed a dream run up the inside to lead at the turn.
She is wearing a figure-hugging white bodice and tight ski pants which perfectly show off her dancer's figure and dark colouring.
A flush of relief is coursing around my body and I am bear-hugging Penny's rucksack in front of me.
And the glamorous lawyer showed she meant business earlier this week when she arrived at a Downing Street reception in a red figure-hugging outfit, upstaging the World Cup heroes in whose honour the reception was held.
So, I suppose it could become a theme or subtheme of pundrity and vicious commentary throughout not only a general campaign if Hillary is the nominee [ad naseum flashes of that one picture again of Bill hugging a glowing faced Monica], but also extending throughout any years Bill C. might again spend in the White House. Poll: Hillary's Huge Lead In Florida Fueled By Women Voters
Callum Balfour had been up for hours, mulling over accounts and business and chugging water with Alka Seltzer by the pitcherful.
I can't ever recall Dad hugging me. Neither did I sit on his knee.
And yes, what I thought was a dull, level waistline turns out to be the top of a gentle wedge, and what came across as a slabby rear quarter is a subtly-bulged haunch hugging the rear wheel tightly.
She slipped on a figure-hugging black dress and adorned the outfit with a bold selection of costume jewellery.
It brought to mind a small tea cosy hugging too large a pot. Times, Sunday Times
He also loves being outside in his pushchair and hugging his brown dog toy. The Sun
I'm hugging myself at the thought of seeing him again so soon.
After hugging her parents goodbye, the college student breezes through security at the airport.
Alone on her mountain, Deanna is hugging a secret.
He wears "High-top boots expensively clicker'd with gold taps, a pair of hip-hugging jodhpur-style pants in a faded mauve tone, an amount of gold chains, a heavy mink coat to keep out the worst of the hardwind's assaults and a goatskin beanie hat set pavee-style at the crown of his head. City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review
Madeleine curled up into a ball on the floor, drawing her knees tightly to her chest and hugging them.
Her friend nodded wordlessly, and the two of them burst into tears and began hugging each other.
I could hear machinery of some kind chugging away inside.
Caressing, hugging, stroking, and cuddling all send a chain reaction of chemicals to signal your brain that this is pleasurable.
One expects to find a centerfold pop-up of Bush hugging a puppy.
We asked you if you knew about other old desktops still chugging away somewhere.
If you're a tree-hugging granola fetishist, go Green.
It's important to express our love through words and actions, kissing and hugging our children often.
And then this great ugly grey beast comes into sight, hugging the ground, hedgehopping, looking for all the world to be moving along on giant rails. Power of Chinooks
I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. Drew Barrymore
The lift itself was fine; I could hear it chugging up and down the shaft, and the door on the inside was certainly sliding open with the familiar crunch, but there was no way I could actually get in.
Annika spent most of her time with her sister, knees drawn up to her chest, hugging them tightly.
Some were attired in figure-hugging minis, some were dressed in sparkling evening wear and a few in casuals.
The altogether fetching, ground-hugging alpine forget-me-nots are at their peak in mid-July (followed closely by such charmers as alpine sandwort, mouse ear, and rockjasmine).
The diesels and the new generation push-pull trains are chugging, but the sound of the trains is as lyrical as ever to them.
No pillow talk and no hugging required. Times, Sunday Times
It's a familiar scene in the country - a tractor chugging its way across a field mowing down swath after swath of green alfalfa.
He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing.
Vinny brought the plastic cup of beer to his mouth and tipped his head back, gulping nervously, chugging the entire beverage in just a few slurps.
The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
Britons have shed their stiff upper lip reputation and have embraced hugging, a new study suggests. Times, Sunday Times
Here she mainly rolls her eyes in sorrow and gazes longingly at Fairbanks, a pretty sight himself in a ripped, muscle-exposing blouse and thigh-hugging culottes.
The change is expected to dramatically refashion a multibillion-dollar contest to build a new class of shore-hugging warships that will specialize in missions like combating piracy or chasing drug smugglers. Navy May Split Ship Purchase Between Lockheed, Austal
I could hear the bus before I saw it, its unhealthy chugging sound coming closer and closer.
Serial celebrity 'hugger' Tania McIntosh ran towards Peaches and grabbed hold of her tightly, before hugging her for several seconds. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
In a country where goat-propelled carts are de rigueur and people stop and stare in wonder at a 35-year-old Mack truck chuffing and chugging along the rutted roads.
Effortless hooks and fantastical storytelling gave way to chugging riffs and darker lyrics.
As for the juice, its health benefits may keep some customers chugging it, but it has a lingering, biting, tannic aftertaste.
‘Hey, princess,’ Lyle greeted Alisha, hugging her when he reached where she was standing by the coatracks.
My favorite shot in the film is near the end when the women are all hugging each other on the escalator, just acting with a sort of animal, feline grace.
I went to the discount bin and was dismayed to find a choice between blue and beige stripes and a skyscape of cloud-hugging teddy bears. Shade
These exquisite, ground-hugging little flowers are the moorland pasture equivalent of woodland primroses, brought into precious bloom by a month of sunshine. Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
Your article starts wonderfully, propounding the sentiments that could have been expressed by a tree hugging commie like me, only you do it so much more eloquently.
A little before six o'clock, we were casting plugs about a mile above St. Anthony Falls when the Patrick Gannaway, a towboat, came chugging upriver with two barges.
I really should stop chugging coffee and then use every idea that pops into my head.
She pulled out a purple, figure-hugging shirt that she had also customised.
Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck, used to frighten off local wildlife.
I told Christopher honestly, propping my knees up and hugging them.
He waved and jogged over, hugging his fiancée and then standing back to get a better view of her sister.
Balmain Parisian designer Christophe Decarnin turned John D. Rockefeller pinstripes into body-hugging power suits for Balmain's fall collection. Menswear Suits the Ladies, Too
Mr. Guccione, who often wore hip-hugging leather pants and shirts unbuttoned to his navel - exposing his chest hair and gold chains - estimated Penthouse earned $4 billion during his 30-year tenure as publisher. Bob Guccione, 79, founder of Penthouse magazine
But one thing it is not given enough credit for is the insane idea that hot chicks with ample cleavage, decked out in body-hugging unitards and go-go boots, can defeat any mob syndicate with just a flip of their Farrah Fawcett hair.
Hip-hugging black jeans tucked into hand-tooled black leather boots, clinging black sweater beneath the open black jacket.
Now I'm hugging my friends when they have good news and even cheering on bloggers I don't even know who are running into streams of great good luck.
Aphids, whiteflies, hornworms, and even field mice are more visible and more easily controlled when you don't have to battle them in a tangle of ground-hugging vines.
Jaymes grinned and crossed the small distance between them, hugging his younger brother warmly. TREASON KEEP
Next morning they paddled off in kayaks, hugging the coast along a sheer rock face. Times, Sunday Times
At a photographic session, she will wear a figure-hugging leopard print outfit of cross-over top and skin tight leggings.
He leaned against the carved doorframe, hugging himself wretchedly, wondering why he could feel almost nothing, not even real grief -- just a kind of hollowness that nothing, throughout the length of his life, would ever again fill. The Silent Tower
A good question, and in reply we ask you to imagine a tramp steamer packed to the gunwales with volumes one, three and five as we speak chugging its way across the Atlantic.
Hugging myself, I silently admitted that I missed her feisty behaviour and saucy manner.
Then the slumbrous quiet would fall, to be broken by the far call of a foreign tongue or by a gasoline fishing boat chugging in through the mouth of the slough. CHAPTER XI
With its prostate growth habit, the ground-hugging stems of this form are clothed in glaucous foliage.
Some were attired in figure-hugging minis, some were dressed in sparkling evening wear and a few in casuals.
Dear boy," she crooned, hugging him heartily.
It was a lovely family moment, full of cuddling and hugging and cozy fun.
I don't actually remember the con, because it's all a long blur of dashing from one meeting to the next and hugging people in hallways, but I do have to say that I sniffled a bit during the WF Awards when my Sycamore Hill roomie, Mary Rickert, picked up a pair of bookends. Home again, home again, like a turtle to his balcony.
Dressed in tight ripped jeans and a figure-hugging white blouse, her long blonde mane is loose and curly except for a plait at the front. The Sun
We watched the sunlight dying, hugging each other close in the crisp cool air.
He was hugging a big pile of books.
And there's always the smell of apples, just like in the country when I was little and used to think I was a choo-choo train, running through the fields of corn and chugging up the hill to the orchard.
I didn't know what the feeling was, but suddenly he leapt forward and wrapped his arms around me, hugging me silently.
In the mornings she is often seen ambling around with a notebook, writing song lyrics, singing to herself and hugging fellow holidaymakers. The Sun
She slipped on a figure-hugging black dress and adorned the outfit with a bold selection of costume jewellery.
liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers
While definitely not measuring up to the facilities offered by those plush apartments hugging Jakarta's main streets, it had enough - tennis courts, a swimming pool, a minimart - to keep me happy.
Immense clades come and go without leaving any survivors, and these few weirdos keep chugging along, sometimes in refugia (tuatara) and sometimes not (horseshoe crabs). Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’?
You can actually hear his brain make chugging noises when he thinks.
Wet as a water rat, she sat hugging her knees.
It was winter, some time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the light is crisp and clean, and I remember hugging myself with the knowledge that I was in New York and nowhere else.
Fundraisers told MPs that chugging—a name derived from "charity mugging"—had attracted few complaints.
I curled up on the quilted bedspread, hugging my stockinged legs to me.
He curls up in his seat, knees up to his shoulders, his arms hugging himself tight.
It seems to me that the negative reaction to the idea of a clicker is often a knee-jerk reaction to what many trainers see as a "tree hugging" way of training. Can You Clicker-Train a Gun Dog?
There will be hugging, I bet ... and foreheads pressed together and clutchy hands, too. Supernatural S5 Episode 1...Reaction Post
He was postured upright, near a myriad of hell-bent souls waiting in line, hugging each other and slapping hands ... giving big grins with a whoop here and there. Jesse Aizenstat: Not So Lost Generation
I'm still chugging away at my SNES, Nintendo DS, and Playstation 2 as I daydream about these fancier, spiffier game machines and what they can offer me in terms of freedom. Top 10 Videogames Not Played in 2008
Looking, we saw two people, a male and a female, laughing, hugging, kissing and giggling as they went down the pier to a sail boat.
She now wears figure-hugging clothes and tight sportswear, enjoys the gym and is looking forward to a confident love life. The Sun
And a body disturbingly contoured in a snug jacket and a pair of hip-hugging trousers. Earl of Durkness
Predictably, the owners of the two multiplexes in Bangalore are hugging themselves in glee.
Perhaps she cut a deal with some farmers, ‘Luv, if you can make this here cabbage sexy, we will keep you in bosom-hugging twinsets for life’.
At this stage in the development of the archetypal pin-up photograph, there was still more satin than skin, with the figure hugging satin gowns and silk negligees being the props de rigueur.
After Kallar, the track ascends into the mountains hugging the verdant slopes.
I laughed a little and opened the door, throwing my arms around his neck and hugging him tightly.
Then held her at arm's-length and looked at her joyfully, then stood up, hugging her. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
So-called "chugging" by on-street fundraisers has been restricted by some councils amid complaints by some members of the public that they can be aggressive and disruptive.
Her smile - small as it was - lit up her face, and she enveloped her father in her arms, hugging him and squeezing as hard as she could.
I felt very laid back, the sofa seemed to be hugging me as I sank deeper into its embrace.
The train was still chugging through the same landscape.
It's ground-hugging horizontality reaching for the horizon; the entrance that 'winds in' to the centre of the house; the low sheltering roofs springing from the central vertical core; the 'pinwheel' spaces revolving out around the hearth ... this was a revolutionary new form of space and domestic architecture not seen before, patterns that would be seen in most of his 'Prairie Houses' for the next ten years. Not PC
She is dressed in a body-hugging, full-length stripper gown and armed with an acid retort for every smart-aleck remark.
Capes and ponchos in embroidered mohair, short-length jackets are styled with ample sleeves and hugging necklines.
The sentry sat hugging his rifle.
A limp haze hung over the broad strath and the river, hugging the edge of the valley, was unusually pensive.
We both turned around and I was actually quite surprised to see the two of them hugging.
One of the ads to be screened on prime time television shows a busy high street where adults of all ages are hugging each other, lamp posts, and everything else they can lay their hands on.
He is a true winger in the Ryan Giggs mould, hugging the touchline and whipping in crosses and lethal shots in great quantity.
Blair reached out for the blanket now and pulled it over his legs and body, hugging his abdomen with both arms.
Sure enough, a train was chugging slowly towards them, belching steam up into the air.
Finally one day, he heard the chugging of a distant motor boat.
She now wears figure-hugging clothes and tight sportswear, enjoys the gym and is looking forward to a confident love life. The Sun
Here are companies that can ride out near-term bumpiness and keep your portfolio chugging along over the long term. Riding Out the Storm
We left them there at the bus stop in Winborn. As we drove away, I watched out the window as long as I could, looking back at the little gihugging her new doll.
Hugging her upon arrival had been like embracing a closetful of broomsticks. World Wide Mind
I think the one person who should be hugging himself with glee is the Defence Secretary.
Old Portaloo was hugging himself there, I just PMSL. Army Rumour Service
Every Wednesday I watch in amazement as rigid, gay-weary men turn into man-hugging metrosexuals over the course of a day.
The train crosses broad meadowlands before hugging the North Fork of the Payette River first on one side of the tracks, then on the other.
Those hemp-growing, tree-hugging, corporate-hating deistic free loving and free thinking present-at-the-creation Americans believed above all that the Truth would keep us free. Harvey Wasserman: The Tea Party/GOP Would Hate Our Actual Founders
Charities that resort to chugging are just plain lazy.
Touched, Lucas brought his arms around his body even tighter - hugging him, kissing him, claiming him.
For the next twenty-four hours, we waited, while he lay unconscious in the crisis center with tubes in his nose, wired up to an encephalogram machine, a respirator chugging. On Becoming A Statistic
In the mornings she is often seen ambling around with a notebook, writing song lyrics, singing to herself and hugging fellow holidaymakers. The Sun
He angled the six-year-old daughter of Desert King to one off the fence from her No.14 post position, and by the time they were racing down the backstretch she was hugging the rail.
A moment later, her garage door opened and I was inside, between her BMW and Theodore 's Porsche, and Cass was hugging me. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
I threw my arms around him and squeezed, hugging him and burying my face into his chest as I cried.
It flew low on the 90-minute journey, hugging the mountainous landscape and skimming over forests as if anxious to avoid radar detection. Times, Sunday Times
Teddy sat back in his chair, chugging mineral water.
Sitting on one of the stonework terraces of the ramshackle Royal Caribbean Hotel, Lawson eyed a cocky little stinkpot chugging up toward Coastown under big mackerel clouds. The Season of the Machete
‘I don't know, Rifka,’ I whispered, hugging the little blond wisp of a child close to me.
While the one on the left had the other stewardesses were chugging down and dancing, it was the one on the right that was favoured by our unattractive hostess.
Lewis was staring towards the housel Jessica opened the french window and ran up to him, hugging him with a love that made Lacey's eyes sting with tears. A Cure For Love
There's no staginess before and no hugging each other after. Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
Rocky told me the night before that he would be back again in two days to see me, and I was mentally hugging myself at the thought of seeing him again.
I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.” I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
Hugging didn't seem impersonal, nor did it say she was ready to kiss him yet.
"I love you baby, " Kelly says, hugging her.
His wet suit was hugging every part of his body and he was hugging his surfboard.
Next morning they paddled off in kayaks, hugging the coast along a sheer rock face. Times, Sunday Times
Bella strutted over, the dress she was barely wearing—some low-cut, black mini-thing—hugging every miraculous curve of her body. Shore Thing
Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck, used to frighten off local wildlife.
Past these windows, from Randolph to Twelfth surges the crowd: matinee girls, all white fox, and giggles and orchids; wise-eyed saleswomen from the smart specialty shops, dressed in next week's mode; art students, hugging their precious flat packages under their arms; immigrants, in corduroys and shawls, just landed at the Twelfth street station; sightseeing families, dazed and weary, from Kansas; tailored and sabled Fanny Herself
The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion.
Hugging the spectacular Ligurian coast, the route tilted uphill immediately with a 15. 8-kilometer (9. 8-mile) climb followed by a nerve-racking descent full of hairpin curves with cliffs heading down to the sea lurking just over the guardrails. Menchov wins Stage 12 time trial to take Giro lead
Then held her at arm's-length and looked at her joyfully, then stood up, hugging her. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Danielle turned her back to attend to one of the pizza ovens, showing her tight buns in hip-hugging workout shorts to Amy. Steven Crandell: A Is for Amy & Adonis: Chapter T
He opened the fridge and took out a carton of milk, shaking it to see if any was left and chugging down what little milk there was.
Then the hugging begins, not pro forma handclasps but close, sustained embraces.
As the pencil thin model draped in a body hugging kebaya walked in, the audience let out a collective cry.
Hip-hugging black jeans tucked into hand-tooled black leather boots, clinging black sweater beneath the open black jacket.
He has his hand on the shoulder of the older gentleman in the thigh-hugging moleskins.
Micky Steele-Bodger Barbarians' eminence and 85 early in September captained Cambridge in 1946 and won nine caps for England as a teaky bear‑hugging back-row barnstormer. Singing the blues for rugby's Major event and its men of Steele
I was so relieved to be rid of him that I just kept hugging Derek over and over.
The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion.
Fabrics ranged from nylon (used in fabulous figure-hugging knitted frocks) to wool with plenty of faux suede and fur in between.
After writing this article I could get into my car, strap a pork pie to my head and sing the national anthem while chugging down the motorway at a cool 70 mph and they could not touch me for it.
But what's a wife to do when her husband insists on wearing outdated glasses, gut-hugging shirts, or white sneakers with niceish pants? Boston.com Top Stories
I feel (a bit) sorry for the gay-bashing, drug-warrioring, morning after pill-banning, no-knock search-loving, Patriot Act-hugging folks who considered this site their ideological home for solong. The Volokh Conspiracy » Results of VC Reader Poll
I can't ever recall Dad hugging me. Neither did I sit on his knee.
I leafed through the pages, gazing at the silk bustiers and taffeta gowns, the hip-hugging denim capris and leather halterneck dresses worn by rich, famous, and beautiful people. Indie Girl
"Unfortunately, all activity of this kind is being tarred with the word 'chugging'—which has become shorthand for aggressive 'in your face' fundraising by people on commission."
She set off down the lane, hugging her coat round her in the cold, lost in her own reflections. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
He will be wearing cargo pants and a body hugging singlet, with emphasis on his upper body.
And Salabaetto being come to see her one evening, she greeted him gaily and gamesomely, and fell a kissing and hugging him, and made as if she were so afire for love of him that she was like to die thereof in his arms; and offered to give him two most goodly silver cups that she had, which Salabaetto would not accept, having already had from her (taking one time with another) fully thirty florins of gold, while he had not been able to induce her to touch so much as a groat of his money. The Decameron, Volume II
Marge was busy hugging one and all, including Miss Rose, who did not relish a hug.
Chuggington is available at www. chuggington.com; additional information about Ludorum can be found at www. ludorum.com. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
There are no figure-hugging, navel-revealing dresses or hip-shaking dances.
Young guys with bulging biceps and ravishing girls in figure-hugging outfits occupied every inch of the place.
During the last four years, while most of her contemporaries from the first part of her career have dropped off the radar or retired from the sport, Reed has been chugging along, picking up World Cup and Pan-Am Games medals and multiple national championships along the way. Reed wins world title, USA TODAY weekly honor
Designer Sergio Ciucci served his body-hugging concoctions mostly in black leather, while he also cut jackets and coats into black pony skin and delivered noteworthy fur numbers with side bands.
Britons have shed their stiff upper lip reputation and have embraced hugging, a new study suggests. Times, Sunday Times
We sailed until midnight, hugging the shore.
Cherry came in and sat down on a beanbag, hugging her knees. DESPERADOES
Innovations included a new figure-hugging shirt that was more difficult for opposition players to grab hold of than the looser shirts of the past.
Shaerl trudged toward them, hugging a large box.
She quickly crawled against the railing and sobbed, grabbing her knees against her, hugging it tightly for comfort.
His beautiful date Eanna looked divine in a full-length, figure-hugging turquoise gown, which she bought in Monsoon.
Winslet, wearing a figure-hugging corset-style black dress and a faded denim jacket, said it was lucky she had been cast in a dowdy role, because her weight ballooned during filming, which ended when she was six months pregnant.
‘Hey’ Joel says walking over to her and hugging her tightly then kissing her forehead.

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