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136 Sentences With "tugged at"

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But the possibility of going into space tugged at her.
Jane tugged at her arm, but couldn't get her hand free.
Iran tugged at the vulnerability of the President's position own Wednesday.
She was making dinner when her daughter tugged at her elbow.
The paraplegic man tugged at my sleeve whenever I walked by.
"Milk, mama," she'd say as she tugged at my my shirt collar.
Still, his living conditions in Barnesville tugged at the heartstrings of many.
He kissed me again, but now he tugged at me insistently, impatiently.
The landscaper looked like officers' fathers Salgado's plight tugged at the officers.
Hunter shook as he tugged at the levers, shoveling groundwater and ore.
When Kelly walked by, he tugged at the leg of her pants.
The images have tugged at the heartstrings and induced much public soul-searching.
Juniper released a damp, warm smell and Russian thistle tugged at Beatriz's skirt.
For years, the question tugged at FIFA and the International Football Association Board.
For Argentina, the debate over abortion tugged at the country's sense of self.
The crocodile hunters tugged at the trap's rope and heaved him onto land.
A squall tugged at sagebrush and sent dust devils spinning off the mesas.
The family's story tugged at the curiosity of locals and journalists for decades.
But the latest celebrity to show off some ink really tugged at our heartstrings.
Everything fanned your fears or affirmed your suspicions or tugged at your tender feelings.
One of the women approached Mendieta, and tugged at his shirt, a purple polo.
As the Mets enjoyed success on the field, Alderson's secret tugged at his heart.
While the gesture tugged at the heartstrings of romantics everywhere, some fans weren't too pleased.
She walked up to me and playfully tugged at my arm, asking me to stay.
Though she never completely stopped painting, the impulse to animate her imagery tugged at her.
The players began wrestling while still on the grass, and Rudolph tugged at Garrett's helmet.
Honestly, "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By" tugged at my heart a little.
We all feel like we've been horribly treated, and this story really tugged at our heartstrings.
An interview that tugged at the nostalgia strings even as they discussed the next big thing.
With small, fine movements he tugged at the paper, tearing the picture out along the crease.
Cherkaoui then tugged at the ideas in the quotes in ways both subtle and crashingly obvious.
But there was one character that tugged at my wannabe-cool girl heartstrings, and that was Belle.
He sprinted onto the field and tugged at Raju, sending him walking and tripping toward his own bench.
But it was the second-place finish on the flat, looped marathon course that tugged at her the most.
Magesa was more serious and stood stiffly as the prosthetist tugged at his harness straps and tightened its buckles.
But at the doorway, Majed wanted her to read him his report card, and Zahiya tugged at her, too.
Each passing text tugged at Ms. Lewell's heart, pulling her toward a new life that beckoned beyond the border.
He twitched and tugged at his goatee and plugged and unplugged his cellphone, an unlit cigarette in his hand.
It just hit him at a moment where it tugged at his heart somehow, and his son was just distraught.
The scene tugged at heartstrings as the unseen footage was shown at the Star Wars Celebration in Chicago on Friday.
I've heard him whine and cry, and just imagining him in that box by himself, tugged at my heart terribly.
Their backbones cracked as they tugged at one another with their mighty arms—and sweat rained from them in torrents.
To hear more about his family life and how difficult his parents' divorce had been for him tugged at my heartstrings.
It was a thrilling challenge, I thought as I tugged at it, trying to keep my attitude as positive as possible.
The ad was part of a broader trend that tugged at people's heart strings, including an ad for New York Life.
When he tugged at a napkin from across the table, nearly tipping over the holder, I passed him one of mine.
I remember reading all of the books with my children, and I will admit that today's crossword tugged at my heartstrings.
Then, the ad tugged at my heartstrings as it showed footage of a couple of customers who actually helped the kid out.
Scarpetta told CNN that as a mother, the tragedy tugged at her heart and made her want to sculpt the little girl.
They walked the red carpet, took over the silver screen, and tugged at guests' heartstrings through a very cool virtual reality experience.
"It really tugged at us to see the staff going from being proud to scared in a matter of weeks," he said.
To feel anything at all, she had to press the motor to her clitoris as the antennae tugged at her pubic hair.
She twisted her hands and tugged at the pink and white stripes on her dress, which was emblazoned with a pink sequined heart.
Hearing Trinity's story of missing out on all those high school moments to take care of her ill grandmother tugged at my heartstrings.
Outside, amid the mud and sewage, men tugged at a manually powered Ferris wheel, a brief moment of delight for an uprooted community.
No similar currents of disorientation tugged at me during the revival of "Dying City," which opened on Monday night at Second Stage Theater.
She wore blue patterned workout leggings, white New Balance sneakers and a maroon V-neck tee that she tugged at as she talked.
Still, his reaction tugged at my heart, making me realize that some day, he'll come back to the book with sadder, wiser eyes.
Besides being tugged at by China and oil, the stock market is about to be put to the test by fourth-quarter earnings season.
Her story (and cute face!) tugged at the heartstrings of many animal lovers, quickly growing Fiona's popularity at the zoo and on social media.
At the mosque, the other little girls my age tugged at their mothers' hijabs and burqas, and did so on the way home, too.
Her longing to see America elect a woman president—and her crushing disappointment at getting a horrific misogynist instead—tugged at my feminist heartstrings.
Here we take a look at the five acts that tugged at our heartstrings the most -- and we revisit the people who made the difference.
In the top of the third, she tugged at her visor and trotted out to the mound under the auspices of making a pitching change.
Kevin Gates is gonna do time for the crime of unloading a brutal kick on one of his fans ... after she tugged at his shorts.
The next time I saw someone who tugged at my heart in that way was probably at a conference when I was a law student.
As an adult, Bailey became a photographer in New York City, but the Colorado landscape tugged at his psyche until at last it demanded he return.
He said he was proud of his years at shortstop, but maybe, he added, he could have been better had the outfield not tugged at him.
CreditCreditTony Luong for The New York Times HOLLYWOOD — Frankie Shaw tugged at her nubby wool sweater as she dashed across the lot of Sunset Gower Studios.
He flapped his hands wildly, tugged at the noise-canceling headphones atop his brown curls and then turned to his mother to deliver a head butt.
The team found that as Sagittarius orbited the Milky Way, our galaxy's gravitational pull tugged at the dwarf galaxy, swiping five or so stars in the process.
Like Korn's debut, it was thrillingly heavy, with bass lines and kick drums that tugged at the mix like the powerful undertows swirling off the Malibu coast.
The beloved game show host could barely hold back tears during the "Final Jeopardy" round when contestant Dhruv Gaur wrote an answer that tugged at Alex's heartstrings.
As the years tugged at Mr. Stanton's face, pulling down the corners of his mouth and further hollowing out his cheeks, his face became a fantastic landscape.
Her remarks tugged at the heartstrings of a sympathetic audience in Los Angeles (Anna Chlumsky looked unraveled) and many more who toasted the milestone on social media.
Yet somehow, baseball tugged at him — first in a summer league, then at a junior college, then at Creighton, where he was supposed to concentrate on basketball.
He sought out pieces that have always tugged at him, important works he has longed to own, those that formed his aesthetic during a sui generis childhood.
And starting on March 6 — unless Congress disrupts the Trump administration's current plans — those roots are going to be, immigrant by immigrant, tugged at and torn up.
What about the poet who tugged at the corners of his eyes and asked me in a mocking tone: Do you think being Chinese matters to your writing?
Justin Bieber tugged at the heartstrings of his 62.2 million Instagram followers on Saturday when he resurfaced a throwback image of a kiss with ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez.
Whereas many philanthropically inclined individuals make decisions to donate based on which causes tugged at their heartstrings, this movement takes a highly data-driven approach to charitable giving.
If the spate of recent national tragedies has tugged at your heartstrings and encouraged you to donate to a charitable crowdfunding campaign, beware: you're entering dicey legal territory.
Hockey tugged at him, but he had not played since 1997, his last season in juniors, where he scored precisely one point over stints with five amateur teams.
The tension between the fields of dots and the different configurations constantly tugged at my attention, pulling it in different directions — from the single marks to the larger groupings.
A completed border wall, and the victory it would represent to many, is thus conveniently unattainable, allowing for the same fleeing forward that has always tugged at American history.
In earlier times, when you wanted to signal a turn, you tugged at the blinker stalk and then returned it to the center position once the turn was completed.
The leather sole of a hand-stitched shoe, preserved by the anaerobic mud, flapped in the breeze, and she tugged at its toes to wrest it from the bank.
Yankees 13, Cubs 4 CHICAGO — When Aaron Hicks slid across home plate, ahead of an errant throw from Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell, he was tugged at by competing emotions.
Xi said Hong Kong had "always tugged at my heartstrings," and pledged China would make sure the territory's autonomy had a "far-reaching future" under the "one country, two systems" arrangement.
Friday's tech rally may have set up stocks for more gains in the week ahead, although the market could be tugged at by geopolitical concerns, like trade war talk and Iran.
It's a place where the defiant hope of pop rock is tugged at the edges by a melancholy awareness that for many of these people, escape will never be an option.
For the first time since he started speaking, a wry smile tugged at the corners of his mouth, a wink and a nod to his new-found fame in the community.
Freya, a Staffordshire bull terrier, tugged at everyone's heartstrings after a report surfaced she'd been in a UK dog shelter for 6 years and passed up 18k times ... thus the nickname.
Still, as Leipold entertained guests in his suite an hour before the game, the magnitude of the day — the Wild's long-awaited audition for a future N.H.L. Winter Classic — tugged at him.
The beer company tugged at everyone's heartstrings this year with a compassionate spot highlighting more than 218 million cans of water to cities across the U.S. that were impacted by natural disasters.
There's a hook, the smallest one, the slightest indication of suitable association—and it's grabbed, and tugged at, and there we go, there's your trailer with a song that just barely works.
It showed a mother who had collapsed from a fentanyl overdose sprawled out in the toy aisle of a Family Dollar while her sobbing 43-year-old daughter tugged at her arm.
There's the release of "A Dog's Journey," the sequel to "A Dog's Purpose," which in 2017 tugged at the heart strings of animal lovers so enticingly it took in $19933 million worldwide.
Videos of kangaroos looking for refuge on neighborhood lawns have gone viral, while images of koalas drinking out of rescue workers' water bottles (perhaps dangerously) have tugged at heartstrings far and wide.
But an opposing force tugged at me, too — the impulse to leap beyond our ecosystem, expand our boundaries, open new worlds for the coming generations the way my great-uncle had for me.
The migrant crisis has tugged at European unity like nothing before, and the treaty provides little protection against unilateral border closures or the failure of some European countries to accept refugees from others.
Perhaps the most blatant example occurred in Week 11 when Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey bumped, grabbed and tugged at Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins in the end zone before dragging him to the turf.
I had never handled [a cock ring] before, so I was in the dark, but I tugged at it for about two minutes before it popped off and he gasped and grabbed his junk.
The photos of March, hunched, broken and alone in a bare cage tugged at the heartstrings of countless animal lovers, many of whom shared the photos on Facebook and contacted ACCT Philly to help.
After Jack and I both tugged at him in an attempt to get him to sit back down, Ryan and the security guards had a heated verbal exchange, but no physical contact was made.
"Hong Kong has always tugged at my heartstrings," Xi said on arrival at Hong Kong airport for the handover anniversary in front of flag-waving crowds at the start of a three-day visit.
But his blue-collar Southern roots tugged at him: panicked by the swooning market, his father, a telephone company lineman with no college degree, had sold much of the stock in his retirement account.
All the more so if you are a global brand ambassador being tugged at like the last cashmere sweater in a sale pile — as Franklin was in the lead-up to the 2016 Olympics.
We wound up talking about the things we do with our hair: One tugged at her ponytail, which I was aware of, and the other pulled out his facial hair, which I was not.
Near a strip mall that sold religious candelabra and fur hats, a group of teenage boys tugged at the prayer threads that hung at their waists, discussing whether they would hang out with unvaccinated friends.
"After Jack and I both tugged at him in an attempt to get him to sit back down, Ryan and the security guards had a heated verbal exchange, but no physical contact was made," Bentz said.
The man was not finished however, because as the eye bounced against the doctor's flabbergasted cheek, the man tugged at it, attempting to tear it from the physician's eye socket, and take it as his prize.
Instead, for €7 — about $9 at the time — the Dane guys would give you a ride to the top in a snow-grooming machine, where an entire resort's worth of untracked powder tugged at my tips.
I felt like I was interfering in a very personal and painful ritual as she downed beers, tugged at her clothes, paced like a rabid animal and screamed with a ferocity that was anything but fabricated.
It's a testament to the dramatic talents of Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau that an incest reunion that took a somewhat galling amount of forced plot mechanics to enact still tugged at my heart strings.
"For months after the sinking, Young-seok appeared in my dreams as the little boy he was when he protested my going to work in the morning and tugged at my pants," she said, choking with tears.
It was the first time I had heard the subject being discussed, and I was also acutely aware that some of my classmates had tugged at the corners of their eyelids to greet me when we were younger.
Standing at the edge of a muddy path to Rezu Amtali, after a five-day journey with only a few handfuls of ruined rice to sustain them, a 6-year-old girl named Roufaja tugged at her mother's sleeve.
Although I knew while watching this episode that the last eight years of The Walking Dead were consistently oscillating between boring and predictable, "What Comes After" effectively tugged at those nostalgic strings between some stellar moments of acting from Lincoln.
The sad faces and tales of misery portrayed in the coverage tugged at the heartstrings and lead readers to one conclusion: the only reason Sessions enacted this policy is because he is mean-spirited and doesn't like women and small children.
"Bury Me Here" was the most heart-wrenching episode the show has managed to deliver all season, and it's probably no coincidence that it successfully tugged at our heartstrings for reasons that had nothing to do with the main Negan arc.
"Plus you are having your damn nipples tugged at by an aggressive machine that makes an annoying sound, that echoes through your head day and night (I swear that machine and I had many conversations at midnight and 3 am)!" she revealed.
When he'd been growing up in the late 80s and early 19933s, he was convinced that the bottom of the lake was choked with bodies, that each taut stem of lotus or water hyacinth tugged at the neck of a drowned person like a noose.
One reason the photo of Omran has tugged at so many heartstrings around the world is that the boy — with his innocent stare, just to the side of the camera's lens — triggers in many a sometimes hard-to-come-by emotion in today's world: empathy.
Every time I have thought 'oh, maybe I don't need to see Taking Back Sunday for the eighth, ninth, tenth time...' something has tugged at my gut, compelled me to go and then I have to spend the next hour and a half eating my words.
If the price for that last item fell short of the estimate, it was also a great afternoon for items that tugged at the heartstrings, like a letter from Angelica Church Schuyler, Hamilton's sister-in-law, discussing the death of his son Philip in a duel.
Sylacauga High walked away with the 79-78 victory, and Eufaula player Terrell Jones, after what would be his final game with the team, gave a speech in a press conference that tugged at the tear ducts of just about anybody with a heart in their chest.
Rangers NEW YORK — Chris Flexen tugged at the boxing robe given to the MVP of a New York Mets win, trying to lengthen it a bit so the robe — clearly designed for someone shorter than the 6-foot-3 Flexen — didn't rest so close to his gym shorts.
The Brits have hosted a few recent memorable performances — like Adele's "Someone Like You" in 2011 (when she was accompanied only by a piano) and Madonna's "Living for Love" in 2015 (when dancers tugged at her cape and it didn't release, causing the singer to tumble off a platform).
There were Lord Tareyton and Lady Gretchen and Buster and Mingus; tiny terriers and yawning cocker spaniels and snow-covered poodles; dogs in strollers and dogs in goggles, dogs on playgrounds and in sunroofs and on airplanes; goldendoodles that stared into your soul and briards that tugged at the heartstrings.
As if Laura Dern hadn't tugged at our heartstrings enough with her inspirational speech after accepting the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for Big Little Lies on Sunday night, she's keeping the fuzzy feelings coming by giving away her Emmy to a very special person.
In Brussels to see key donors as the European Union begins tense negotiations on a long-term EU budget that will be hit by Britain's Brexit departure, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said that while immediate crises tugged at heart strings, wealthy states should also view aid as a long-term investment.
In "My Jewish Year," she becomes curious about how Jews search for meaning — "something tugged at me, telling me there was more to feel than I'd felt, more to understand than I knew" — and decides to celebrate all the Jewish holidays of the calendar year, even the ones she's never heard of.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and a wide array of conservative media voices aggressively tugged at those seams to consolidate Republican support for Kavanaugh after his nomination was staggered by the detailed allegations from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her in high school, along with other charges of sexual misconduct by a classmate at Yale.
As shocking as they were on a local level, the layoffs in Flint might have gone unnoticed by much of the country had it not been for Michael Moore's 218 film "Roger & Me." The incendiary documentary tugged at heartstrings as it showed residents being evicted, belongings thrown onto lawns, and abandoned house after abandoned house as people left the city for greener, more employment-friendly pastures.
Conservative Catholicism isn't standing athwart church history yelling stop; since (at least) the 1960s it's always occupied somewhat more unstable terrain, and under Francis it's increasingly a movement adrift, tugged at by traditionalism and liberalism alike, and well short of the synthesis that would integrate fifty years of rapid change into a coherent picture of how the church can remain the church, what fidelity and integrity require.

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