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Examples for "drag"
Examples for "drag"
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Industry will probably be less of a drag this year, Lozano said.
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Such requirements can drag out rule proposals for months, or even years.
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They drag the river for days but of course nothing comes up.
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Those in the bows leant over to drag in the young lord.
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Here's another real world example: the drag-and-drop Ajax interface in Yahoo Sports.
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The song is right: the Mournes do sweep down to the sea.
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The military said it had prepared options for a Gaza ground sweep.
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Rather, the question is: can it sweep through the other top categories?.
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Analysts say a Democratic sweep could also bode well for emerging markets.
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Britain's virtual sweep also included best comedy for Channel 4's The I.T.
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We must not embroil you with your confessor; nor Juanita with hers.
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Why embroil yourself in an affair with which you have no concern?
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Persist in this foolishness and you may embroil your country in war!
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Child sexual abuse scandals continue to embroil the Church around the globe.
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And now a new difficulty arose to embroil Europe in trouble.
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Sudden doors flap, and gusts of brutal jollity sweep up the street.
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This was even better, for sometimes hard winds sweep up the river.
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I suppose he's going to sweep up many detachments of the enemy.
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Most mornings I sweep up crumbs of polystyrene, from chewed roof insulation.
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Now, Betty, get a dust-pan and brush and sweep up that glass.
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Those in the bows leant over to drag in the young lord.
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It could also drag in the big regional powers, Russia and Turkey.
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We drag in those people, sweat them a bit, and learn more.
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Fighting that could escalate and even drag in Syria itself, he added.
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One may bear one's own troubles, but not drag in other people.
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And in the midst of the fleecy tangle Snowball struggled in vain.
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It is the same affair; part and parcel of the same tangle.
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The state was honeycombed and mined; society was a tangle of plots.
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The lane ended just beyond in a tangle of weeds and undergrowth.
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Things are in a sad tangle; I can't see the way out.
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Telephone and telegraph wires depend in a loose tangle from the poles.
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Then they saw another girl standing in the tangle of wild grapes.
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Despite huge international success, that tangle-haired teenage maverick hasn't changed a jot.
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And we absolutely don't want to tangle with that much tribal infantry.
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He felt it tugging at the line while he unknotted the tangle.
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The house lay silent, half smothered in a dark tangle of shrubbery.
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The conducting wires break, and cross, and tangle in every imaginable fashion.
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She was his only hope of getting out of this tangle alive.
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We know that we move in a tangle of intrigues and espionage.
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A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
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Perhaps I might have served in unravelling this unhappy tangle of misunderstandings.
