Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hugged
IPA transcription: [h'ʌɡd]
Usage examples
  • She hugged the thought of her own unknown and unapplauded integrity
  • Half blinded, Lanyard clipped the man round the body and hugged him tight, exerting all his skill and strength to effect a throw.
  • And soon after, when Mary had been hugged by her two sunburned brothers and was clasped in her father's strong arms, she whispered,
  • McLean shook hands with him warmly, but big Duncan gathered him into his arms and hugged him as a bear and choked over a few words of praise.
  • "Wait a jiffy," called the Woozy, and then it went to a tree and hugged it with its front paws, so that its body couldn't be dragged around by the pull.
  • Corny could have hugged them all and cried like a girl; but pride kept him steady, though his face showed his joy as he nodded his hatless head with a cool--
  • Monsieur Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart like that."
  • The fat, little arms unclasped their hold, and transferred themselves willingly to Polly's neck; and Phronsie hugged up comfortingly to Polly's heart, who poured into her ear all the loving words she had so longed to say.