Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tugging
IPA transcription: [t'ʌɡɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • I staggered up, and tugging the metal from him turned on the next.
  • Blake gazed upon the unprepossessing features of his subordinate, and tugging a cigar from his pocket, handed it to him.
  • Instead of fearing it, you ought to be as anxious as the fox hounds straining at their leashes, or the race horses tugging at their reins.
  • Then Agnes lost her temper, and put out her hands to seize the little girl; but lo! the little girl was gone, and she found herself tugging at her own hair.
  • My Lord, I have no clothes to come to thee; My shoes are pierced and broken with the road; I am torn and weathered, wounded with the goad, And soiled with tugging at my weary load: The more I need thee!