Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hauled
IPA transcription: [h'ɔld]
Usage examples
  • Boats were propelled by it, cars were hauled, and even papers printed.
  • He is hauled into the presence of the foaming customer, cursed, and sacked.
  • And they embarked eagerly forthwith; and they drew up the ship's anchors and hauled the ropes astern.
  • A man on the rope, Wilkinson, suddenly went through to the shoulders, but was immediately hauled out.
  • "But we are no better off if they don't," Ralph remarked, "for we must die here if we are not hauled out.
  • As I said this, Bob put his helm down, whilst I hauled the jib-sheet to windward, and then I sprang aft again to the gun.
  • The asphalt is dug from the edges of the lake, loaded on carts, hauled to the port and from there shipped to nearly every country on the globe.
  • It was next "jacked" up from the trucks, which were hauled away empty, the temporary bridge was dismantled, and the girder finally lowered gently into position.
  • The wind hauled gradually more round from the northward too, and blew warm and balmy; a most welcome change after the raw and chilly weather we had lately experienced.
  • They dragged along the coast of New South Wales; and as often as the hostile nature of the savage natives would permit, hauled their boat up at night, and slept on shore.