lug in
Example Sentences
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The hub of derby activity is a small wooden shack here where fishermen and fisherwomen from across the island lug in their catch in coolers at 8 in the morning and 8 at night.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2012
He had apt quotations to support every statement and did not forget to lug in the names of his distinguished friends.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
There are six shifts of sail, the main being substituted for the fore lug in turn as the weather increases, in a manner similar to that in which our own Mounts Bay boats reduce canvas.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
Why need we always lug in the bridging?—it only retards our discourse to do so.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
Why then should he lug in, or attempt to lug in, the diverse potentialities of this word "evolution," for the purpose of demonstrating the dynamic law governing the developmental stages of his microscopic pellicle?
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
