1 After much tugging, the steel cable straightened out.

2 The baby was tugging her hair.

3 Susannah felt a hand tugging at her shirt-sleeve.

4 Can you feel the fish tugging on the line?

5 Alice was tugging on a sweater.

6 She kicked him,[] tugging his thick hair.

7 Joe was tugging at her sleeve.

8 The baby was tugging at his coat to show that he wanted to be picked up.

9 I looked around to see who was tugging at my sleeve.

10 He felt a hand tugging at his shirtsleeve.

11 "Come on," Alice said, tugging at his hand.

12 Good judgment was tugging on my apron.

13 Sammy followed him, tugging at his trouser legs.

14 The little girl was tugging her mother's sleeve, trying to get her attention.

15 Konno paced the room, tugging at the ends of his silk scarf.

16 Izzie tugging on his arm, pleading, and her father pushing her away.

17 The wind was tugging at her hair, the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold.

18 She turned then, tugging at the wire-mesh fence, squeezing through.

19 She shook her head, tugging the hairbrush vigorously through her tangled auburn locks.

20 I was tugging at the car so hard the chassis was rocking.

21 Tugging at her mane of red-gold hair she turned on her heel and looked Paula up and down.

22 He was tugging at a length of chain that was hanging from a hook in the wall.

23 She could feel a strange tugging, almost like an itch inside her head.

24 Then the little boy, our guide, was with us again, tugging Mr Thabane's sleeve, talking excitedly.

25 Sharpe, glad that he was not having to ride anywhere, began tugging at his tight boots.

26 A dazed Fourth Aunt lay in bed, vaguely aware that some one was tugging on her arm.

27 Then, just when it seemed to have settled, it made a sharp sideways movement, tugging against the halter.

28 A little old woman, clearly upset, was going about tugging at people's sleeves and pointing to the figures.

29 She lived like you do, a dozen slack rope-ends in each dream hand, tugging uselessly on memory or hope.

30 Now, at seventeen, I could gambol in the forbidden delights of Elysium with no one tugging at my hand.

1 After much tugging, the steel cable straightened out.

2 The baby was tugging her hair.

3 Susannah felt a hand tugging at her shirt-sleeve.

31 As mummy stepped out of the car park, tugging Anna's arm even though she was hurrying, she turned away from the postbox.

32 But, like Machiavelli, they are for ever tugging at the sleeves of politicians.

33 He was involving her in something that was tugging at his conscience.

34 Marine biologists used to study life in the ocean deeps by tugging nets behind boats and examining what they dragged up.

34 is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

35 For a moment they were both tugging.

36 I was tugging for a chance to be promoted.

37 The kitten was tugging at my shoe - lace.

38 The dog was tugging at his leash.

39 Spotting Heather's thick leather belt, he grabbed hold, tugging again and again.

40 The little girl was tugging a puppy round the lawn.

41 Tugging the woman's arm, she pulled her to her side saying: "You just stick with me, dear.".

42 An alien-like squid with "elbows" is caught on video, the world's biggest atom smasher fires up, and unknown "structures" are detected tugging at our universe, and more.

43 Unperturbed, some yaks and goats quietly graze, while a brutish dog goes berserk, tugging dementedly at a rope in an effort to get free and kill me.

44 For a moment they were both tugging , and then the handle came off.

45 Let's get a move on, Mulley Teal, gently tugging her Australian - German shepherd into the gym.

46 Today (top left), for example, the gravity of the gas giant Neptune creates gaps by tugging at the icy dust and debris of the Kuiper belt, which orbits just beyond the planets.

47 The child was tugging her toy cart round the garden.

48 I can feel it tugging on the string the boy replied.

49 It is difficult tugging the children round the shops with me, ie because they resist.

50 Today, I awoken at 1:30 am by a strange noise, and something tugging on my hair.

51 The only game I like to paly is tugging .

52 An effective leader engages the normal pushing and tugging as a full participant in the ongoing contest.

53 She took my hand in her mouth, gently, and backed away , tugging.

54 Probes come with a strain relief spring to protect cable against flexing and tugging.

55 A corporate trekker constantly tugging on an ear is probably stressed and may be interested in a yoga kit — or perhaps a therapeutic pillow from the hotel's pillow menu.

56 After much tugging, the rope untangled itself and straightened out.

57 Suddenly he felt something tugging at the end of his fish line.

58 A caterpillar tractor is tugging along the truck that has bogged down.

59 " There is nothing,'she said shortly, tugging at his arm.

60 "Let's get a move on, Mulley, " says Teal, gently tugging her Australian-German shepherd into the gym.

61 But then your eyes pop open and your three year old is standing there, tugging her ear and saying, "Mommy, my ear hurts."

62 Tom was tugging at a button - hole and looking sheepish.