- present participle of drag.
dragging
Example Sentences
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You don’t want to muck bait it and drag it out for the sake of dragging it out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
By the end, I was dragging pieces of focaccia through the last orange streaks left in the pan.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
At one hearing, Conservative MP Kit Malthouse asked if companies were "dragging their feet" due to "a very strong commercial incentive".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
We’re hoping that the public, which was never consulted on whether it wanted to reorganize life this way, is at least dragging politicians somewhat in our direction.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
There was nothing I could do for Sir Fig Newton until I was back at home, so I readjusted my focus to dragging my parents away from the event horizon with my mood-music hypothesis.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
