How To Use Pull In A Sentence

When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
Pulling one back with another penalty - this time converted by the regular taker - they finally conceded a third. The Sun
Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
But I needed to know who it was so I pulled out a comb and brushed my hair forward a little and put it to the side.

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She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
He pulled the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition.
But the family have pulled together and, in spite of fits of irritability, are happy.
It took yards of line off a hard-set drag, and it all but pulled me off my ledge.
After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
I can't afford to have bands who won't pull the crowds.
After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
This type of power - a culture that radiates outward and a market that draws inward - rests on pull, not on push; on acceptance, not on imposition.
She pulled out her camera and took several snapshots of it as she approached.
‘We have to win,’ the Scotland coach affirms with a bluffness which only Australians can pull off.
He will pull out something special today because this is a huge game and there is so much on the line here for the Wallabies. Times, Sunday Times
A top bunk was then pulled down from the ceiling, complete with ladder.
The sun was so strong we had to pull down the blinds.
She was wearing a micro-miniskirt (as usual), pulled over what looked like a mostly-lace teddy.
The firemen did heave a sigh of relief after pulling the deer out, but did not settle down and relax.
He beat on the man's muscular arm, trying to pull himself free as the man opened up the door.
And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
‘Drink this for me,’ I say and pull his cowl down.
It's not clear who actually pulled the trigger.
The micropipette was pulled manually to a gradual taper to ease insertion into the tissue.
He pulled out a big fat wallet stuffed with bank notes.
It was being pulleyed by several cords of thick rope overhead.
My dad was pulled for drunk driving.
The cramps possibly were a side effect of a pulled muscle suffered in winter ball last year.
Most people have no doubt that they are a money spinner and in some part of the country they are being pulled down.
Finally he pulled out a shirt from a drawer in his dresser.
Ky nodded, and pulled out a beaten coin - a copper coin, not wood, I think.
He pulled the hood of his sweatshirt over his head, messing his already messy black hair.
I pulled on my jeans and ran downstairs.
He got more bruises and cuts, muscle pulls and strains than he could remember.
Some seem to have simply added a pull-out keyboard tray to the armoire / entertainment center and renamed it a computer cabinet.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Tennyson
As he fought to rip the net apart, Francis noticed, with horror, that their struggles were only pulling the net tighter, causing it to inject increasing amounts of tranquilizing drugs into their bodies.
The Queen pulled back on the cross, leaving the Governess holding the thin tapered dagger that had been concealed inside. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
They were the most terrifying months our family could live with, but the doctors pulled off a miracle. Times, Sunday Times
The rigid collar and tandem harness allowed teams to pull with equal strength and greater efficiency.
To neatly convey the choice of sizes in the case of such items as drawer pulls, the entire range might be lined up on the page in descending order.
When you pull a needleful through a hole, the wool is correctly positioned on a stretched canvas.
The knot will keep the line from pulling through the turning block or fairlead. Sailing Fundamentals
Sadly, because we found our wine so late, and things have been hectic with a sick 9-month old here at the LENNDEVOURS world headquarters there wasn't time for a full-fledge review, meaning that I didn't taste it blind or even pull my notebook out. Wine Blogging Wednesday
She pulled back hard on the reins, and the horse reared back on its hind legs.
She refused and subsequently suffered injuries to her shoulder, pulled muscles and bruises.
I used to tap dance, high kick, do splits, pull my legs up at the back of my head.
Spring is the season for groin pulls - that is, straining the adductor muscles that run along the inside of your thighs.
The shop-owner, hoping to raise the price to a round figure, pulled the rickshaw in and out of the shed, folded and unfolded the hood and sounded the horn, singing the vehicle's praises all the time.
There is no sign of a supermarket in the villages which dot the land, but home-grown vegetables are pulled directly from the kitchen garden.
Hold that stretch, pulling and elongating the spine from the very base out of the hips, chin to chest.
Until the carabiner pulled tight on the rigging, it seemed from the helicopter that he'd gone over in a suicide dive. MINUTES TO BURN
The camera remains centered on the individuals as they speak, but pulls back when verbal confrontations occur.
He pulls out the original drum track, throws in a turgid approximation of the live drums with a drum machine and a stiff boom-kick, adds some bloops, bleeps, and squiggles (because, hey, it's a remix), and cashes his paycheck.
Carpenter scrambled out of the pocket, pulled up at the line of scrimmage and shoveled the ball to Thompson, who outleaped two defenders under the goal post. USATODAY.com
She took a leather strap and buckled it around my wrist, attaching the dagger to it, pulling the sleeve down to conceal the weapon.
Dunstan had drawn his blade and swung round, the horses pulling the cart rolling their eyes in fright, drawing to a halt.
Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Price pulled up during a routine drill and was withdrawn from the squad by medical staff. Times, Sunday Times
Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them.
It cost us 19 seconds extra to pull the bodywork away to get the wheel off and then to get the other wheel on.
His team pulled the sled deep into the night, Jason shouting orders left and right while he stood on the runners at the back of the sled.
Occasionally when we are short-staffed we have to pull people away from monitoring.
He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Later, I open the envelope and pull out a blow-up of the wedding photo.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer. Times, Sunday Times
He pulled a funny face to make us laugh.
But what you gain in fashion you lose in function: Unlike the "callet," you have to pull the phone from the case to make a call, check a text or take a photo. $39 plus $20 shipping; porter.com The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
There are two large weights hung from pulleys behind the clock.
He made a motion to Renny to pull out local navigation charts.
The cruiser was pulled up below and the cops were questioning an old man with gray hair.
As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
For a moment she feared he would simply step over, grab her wrist, pull out the money.
That unexpectedly collapses it into a black hole, a supermassive region with a gravitational pull so strong not even light can escape.
He pulled over, struggling with the words to the classic song by that skinny girl who died in a closet.
The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
Take a firm grasp of the handle and pull.
The team captains hold aloft the cup and together pull it apart to reveal two specially-made halves - in this game there are no losers.
Lazy Susans, pullout shelves, and special trays can make kitchen cabinets much more useful.
He sank to a sitting position with his back against the door, pulling his knees to his chest.
You have sales guys that are strong in PPC placement, there are guys that are strong in getting national video ad buys for pre and post roll initiatives, there are guys that can pull in banner cpm sponsor buys by the boatload. 300k/monthly budget what would you do? « The Paradigm Shift
Nevertheless, I was determined to be at least vaguely scientific about this review, so I pulled out the omnidirectional microphone I had borrowed from the media unit at work and started making recordings.
And the only real way of pulling it off is by making it a comedy and basically making the audience cack themselves constantly for an hour and a half.
Equally, the vendor can pull out if a better offer comes along, or if they retract from the market. Homebuying: A contract to keep the gazumpers from your door
He pulls out a drawer beside me, and starts riffling through it, obviously he doesn't find what he's looking for, because he slams the drawer a moment later and opens the one below it.
He's far from a certainty at this stage but he's pulled up reasonably well.
She grinned and pulled a triangle of white paper out of her pocket and put it in Faith's hand.
She walked abruptly to the door and pulled it back and ran to the railing where the carn fell away to the sea below. LET NOT THE DEEP
‘I'm coming,’ he muttered, under his breath as he pulled on his bathrobe.
You pull out the pressure cuff, pump the bubble thing, staring at the gismo that resembles your caller ID. Full Tilt Boogie
Getting him to do his homework is like pulling teeth.
Click 'Tools', then select 'Options' from the pull-down menu.
Hao purrfekt, hoo but an evol kitteh wud maek a goggie ware gi-normus antlars n pull a sley all ovar taown? I must stop Christmas from coming… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
He got hold of the rope,and we pulled him up.
Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
The Vasa Trainer operates on a sled that rolls on a track and comes equipped with all sorts of cords, straps, pulleys and a slew of accessories.
I stand on a wood block to lower the bar even farther, then pull it deep into my midsection, again squeezing for a three-count.
Foolish Julie pulled a pot of boiling water from the stove.
He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
You give your ropes a tug and pull all the other man's pegs out.
Be careful when you pull out of the driveway.
The results? About 90 percent of the participants pulled a switch to reroute the boxcar, suggesting people are willing to violate a moral rule if it means minimizing harm.
A bonded joint has very good shear strength, but not so good resistance to being pulled or torn apart; riveting is the familiar answer.
She pulled her sling out of her pack and gathered three or four appropriately sized stones and set out to find her dinner.
The Guardian's pull-out supplement on the same day sported a black cover with just the words ‘Oh, God’ in the middle.
They added a new character, played by Andrew Howard, who is a stellar actor and one of those actors who just kind of electrifies you on set and pulls you in. Pretty/Scary
She pulled her sword close, and rammed the blade's tip into the ground with great force.
Horses trotted through the dirt streets, pulling buckboards and tally-hos past slower-moving electrified trolley cars.
The policeman pulled up the motorist and asked to see his licence.
Pull away the individual leaves carefully right up to the heart of the onion; you will be left with lots of little onion petals. Times, Sunday Times
Bolt on necks may or may not have been innovated by him (they existed on other instruments) but he pulled together the art of manufacturing guitars like no one else.
Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on.
The string-pullers behind this system have no national allegiances.
He pulled at the rope hanging from above to see if it was safe for the climb.
Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
Last summer, when the cruise ship pulled into Beirut, passengers whipped out their cell phones to call disbelieving friends back home. Back From the Brink
If he's hoping to gain promotion, he will have to pull his socks up.
Last month the Victorian government announced that the number of sawlogs allowed to be pulled out of the State's forests will be cut by a third.
Taking small sections of hair at a time, pull your hair over the Flexi Comb and tuck under the edge.
Marlix feared they might be immune to his hurricane spell, but they turned out to be immune to arcance spells, including counterspell, which made it harder for us to pull them away to a quiet spot of the hall. Crossfire in Dire Maul: in over our heads
But I did, and managed to pull off, not unhandily, a tale called ` A Wayside Comedy’ where I worked for a certain ` economy of implication,’ and in one phrase of less than a dozen words believed I had succeeded.
Just as the girl shut the door Yuki pulled herself upright and staggered to the bed.
Serena and I both pulled back, startled, and then watched in awe as they both started laughing.
As she pulled on a tan leather blouson, she eyed me warily, and I returned the compliment.
There is now a real movement in our society to pull our youngsters back from the edge of the precipice of self-annihilation and redirect our children toward a wholesome lifestyle which will allow them a chance to fulfill their potential.
While I kept back the dogs, Uncle Denis, kneeling down, pulled out the quills, and then throwing my blanket over the animal, he secured it as we had done the urson. With Axe and Rifle
If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom). 1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
By the time we pulled up at the ecolodge for the evening, we weren't talking. Times, Sunday Times
Ana laughed it down, stuffing her hand into her pocket and pulling out two small yellow pills, uppers to block her sorrow.
She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer, sharpened her pencil and got down to work.
Two strands of thread are crossed over the desired area and pulled taut, cutting the hairs in perfect symmetry. The Sun
A nice pair of jeans with a cashmere pullover sweater and a nice pair of shoes is a good look.
Melanie is thrust into an unfamiliar family full of secrets, where Uncle Phillip pulls the strings, creating a tyrannical hold over the household.
He pulled him off of her and, dodging a few punches, landed a few jabs and then a roundhouse punch.
She pulled the car into a tight parking space on a side street.
All this guerrilla artwork reflected the widespread belief that it was the IRA that had pulled off the heist.
Last season Marsh pulled off a string of penalty saves and he did not disappoint this time, brilliantly palming away Nick Fisher's spot kick.
After drying, and brushing, and pulling and brushing and drying some more, my hair was one huge, frizzy, fuzzy mop.
I have a skate wing in a pond of hot, acidulated brown butter with capers, and the flesh also pulls away from the cartilage with no effort whatsoever. Restaurant review: Butley Orford Oysterage
When she was gone—on the way out, she said, "G'nighty"—I pulled my toothbrush and toothpaste from my own bucket.
This device slows down the rate of fall, something that ensures when the time comes to pull a ripcord the main canopy is deployed more safely.
He pulled another long drink from his flagon.
One thing was certain: she must have ten minutes to pull herself together, reactivate her brain to make sense of all this. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
They were the most terrifying months our family could live with, but the doctors pulled off a miracle. Times, Sunday Times
A pressman from the paper noticed it and called the newsroom, but it was too late to pull the illustration.
I tore into the envelope and pulled out the letter, skimming quickly over it.
Still trying to pull herself together, Merrill chewed her inner lip crossly.
The terrified family were handcuffed, had pillows pulled over their heads and were held at gunpoint overnight.
Here and there a soldado pulled up, screaming, as a barbed shaft found a crack or pierced a foot or leg. Fire The Sky
Regular readers had pulled out all the stops to send a barrel-load of side-splitting entries that had our funny-man rolling around on the floor with laughter.
You cannot pull off a stunt like that, it's suicide!
Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring. Calder Born, Calder Bred
Will they be used as an excuse to pull back from the ultimate goal, zero-emission engines?
Attached to the coat was often a hood, known as a capuchin, which might be pulled over the toque as an additional head-covering on a journey through the storm. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
But FAA regulations require that if a mandatory inspection or other so-called airworthiness directive is skipped, the aircraft must be pulled out of service immediately until the work is done. Southwest Could Pay Record Fine to FAA
He crows in triumph, and both of us pull as hard as we can and the pipe gives way as half the toilet breaks off and lands on the floor.
He's now oblivious to his workmates' leg-pulling and says: ‘I wouldn't be without my three-wheeler even though I've never been above 60 mph because it shakes too much.’
The nice thing about driving it is that motorists pull over to let you pass.
Grab hold of the rope and pull yourself up.
She takes my arm, grabs me by the shirt collar, pulls me close, pulls me into her life.
If he had really pulled the trigger, I would have ended up then and there.
He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.
In the study, he pulled the drop cloths off the crates holding his books-his and his great-aunt 's and his father's and his mother's. NEW YORK DEAD
It is naughty of you to pull your baby sister's hair.
Rather, in this section we pull out for the reader the key assumptions and insights offered by each.
I grabbed her hand to pull her up, wincing as her numerous rings bit into my fingers.
She wore slacks and a pullover sweater with a crisp button-down blouse under it. DOLL'S EYES
Fighting against her grip, I pull my hand out of the innards, and struggle against the urge to vomit.
But a bad drive down the 17th led to only a par and when he pulled his approach to the last 45 feet wide he needed to hole it to win or three-putt to lose.
He felt a strong pull on the rope.
I struggled to taste the truffle in the light celeriac mousseline but all-in-all this wide array of flavours pulled together well.
Cinching : Practice of pulling the end of a roll to tighten it. It's not recommended.
At the top of your pull, quickly drop under and catch the bar with your arms extended overhead.
Paul pulled a muscle trying to lift the freezer.
After he did this he pulled me closer, hugging me tightly against him.
His injuries are severe but he's expected to pull through.
Yes, but the undeniable facts were the gun discharged because the trigger was pulled.
Flexible muscles are far less likely to be strained or pulled than tight ones.
The big Serb held firm and pulled one back with a towering header. The Sun
The horseshoes are first pulled off, which are worth about 4s., the hoofs fetch 8s., the tail 2s.; the tallow is not worth much, the hide is worth something; the shinbones are sold to be converted into cane-heads, knife-handles, &c. A New York Paper States
He turned sharply racing through on goal only to be pulled down just short of the penalty area.
So when I turned on my seven-hundred-dollar heels to strut toward the bar, and over to where Mona was—perched up on a barstool with a frosty drink in her hand, like I wanted to be—I was slightly annoyed when some nigga grabbed me gently by the forearm, pulling me back to the floor. Deep Throat Diva
She reached in and pulled out a solar map, with one star highlighted.
Sometimes too many keys rose at once and jammed together, so his fingers were all inky from pulling them apart.
So it happened that they prototyped a website that could pull this information together. Open Plaques: joining the blue dots « Innovation Cloud
Despite those twenty years, it was the same old Tom Travers that alighted from the Pullman. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
He had not delivered the fatal blows, he had not pulled the trigger.
A forest of hurls pulled, no one really connected and the ball squirted wide.
Graham pulls out his petrol mower, and, no more than thirty minutes later, the job is done and there are two sacks of mowings waiting to go to the recycling centre.
A guy comes up with a caper, he puts together a team, they plan, and then they pull off the heist.
Traditionally these machines have belts and pulleys to change increment speeds, which wouldn't change so often.
One of the executioners then pulled off a kind of furred tippet which covered her bosom; her modesty taking the alarm, made her start back a few steps; she turned pale, and burst into tears. The Pacha of Many Tales
The monkey learns to administer himself a dose of whatever it is he wants by pulling the right lever. BLACK EAGLES
The van pulled in and waited.

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