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straighten oneself
He drew himself up when he talked to his superior -
cause (a vehicle) to stop
He pulled up the car in front of the hotel -
remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
extract a bad tooth
take out a splinter
extract information from the telegram
pull weeds -
come to a halt after driving somewhere
The chauffeur hauled up in front of us
The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn
How To Use pull up In A Sentence
- Fifty-One Julie Craig heard the car pull up in the driveway and hurried across to the landing window-to look out.
- The "gharry" makes an excellent perambulating studio -- it is a small, high, wooden cab, with little lattice shutters instead of glass which pull up all round so that you can let down those you need for view, aft or forward, or at either side, and pull up the others and thus have privacy and light and air, and you need no stove or hot pipes, for you could roast a partridge inside! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
- The heavy-coated and mufflered man was walking quickly southward; he waved his umbrella to a passing cab, which, however, did not pull up. The Town Traveller
- It was a hard pull up to the mountain hut.
- My neck itches and I pull up on the overalls, a movement that tugs the inseam into my crotch. Miracles, Inc.
- We pull up outside a whitewashed house. Times, Sunday Times
- Grissell, the daughter of trainers Gardie and Diana, had a depressing afternoon at Plumpton on Monday when she had to pull up her horse Downe Payment in a handicap hurdle. Tattenham Corner
- Disregarding a fundamental rule of airmanship that calls for lowering the nose of a plane to gain speed in the event of an aerodynamic stall, the 32-year-old co-pilot at the controls of Flight 447 continued to pull up the nose of the plane, despite extended stall warnings. Air France Crash Report Likely to Alter Pilot Training
- It's a long pull up to the summit.
- You get a glimpse of this when you pull up a clump of grass and get a cubic foot of rootbound soil along with it. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States