DRAGGING in a Sentence

Learn DRAGGING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

233 example sentences for DRAGGING, such as:

1. The heavy coach is dragging along.
2. But the war was dragging out so long.
3. I dragged the chair over to the window.
4. She grabbed the boy and dragged him away.
5. He quickly dragged a comb through his hair.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRAGGING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drag
 v.  move or bring by force or with great effort
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When he raised himself again he saw that she was dragging toward the stove the old soap-box lined with carpet in which the cat made its bed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  Zeena came into the room with her dragging down-at-the-heel step, and quietly took her accustomed seat between them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  The shawl had slipped from her shoulders and was dragging at her down-trodden heels, and in her hands she carried the fragments of the red glass pickle-dish.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  But the war was dragging out so long.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  "Well'm," answered Prissy, dragging out her words pleasurably to give more weight to her message.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  The dim room swam with heat and pain and droning flies, and time went by on such dragging feet Scarlett could scarcely remember the morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  The exhausted horse did not respond to the whip or reins but shambled on, dragging his feet, stumbling on small rocks and swaying as if ready to fall to his knees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Gerald moved toward her, silent as a sleepwalker, his stiff leg dragging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Prissy, holding the baby and dragging Wade by the hand, followed them up the wide steps and disappeared into the blackness of the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  There were hurried stumbling steps in the upper hall, a pause and then more steps, weak dragging steps now, punctuated by metallic clankings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  And then he comes dragging back with the tears all over his face and he says over and over till I could scream: 'Katie Scarlett, Mrs. O'Hara is dead.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  A minute later, she was dragging a heavy marble-topped table across the floor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  She did not even try to avoid puddles but stepped dully into them, dragging her heavy skirts after her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  If it hadn't been for Ashley dragging me out of there and making me get on my horse, I'd have stayed there like a fool and probably had my neck stretched by now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  They did not even raise their eyes as she dismounted from the buggy but Johnnie turned toward her, carelessly dragging off his hat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  The heavy coach is dragging along.
2  She's always dragging sex into the conversation.
3  He heard the sound of heavy, dragging footsteps in the corridor.
4  I stop at a light, thinking my muffler is dragging behind the car since this guy is trying so hard to get my attention.
5  She grabbed the boy and dragged him away.
6  The raft gathered speed as the current dragged it toward the falls.
7  I dragged the chair over to the window.
8  Your behavior is causing our name to be dragged through the mud.
9  One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten.
10  We dragged the discussion out for two hours.
11  He quickly dragged a comb through his hair.
12  They were dragged from their homes, shrieking and weeping.
13  Their cold-blooded killers had then dragged their lifeless bodies upstairs to the bathroom.
14  I'm ready to go home now but I don't want to drag you away if you're enjoying yourself.
15  The box is too heavy to carry down the slope; we'll have to drag it down.