- present participle of tug.
tugging
Example Sentences
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You can feel the vectored torque tugging at the wheel as it fights off understeer in a tight turn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
It refers to the way a rotating black hole twists the spacetime around it, tugging on nearby matter such as stars and causing their paths to wobble.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2025
Omar Fateh steadied himself before the camera and flashed a smile between heavy blinks, the weight of a nearly sleepless night tugging at his eyelids.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2025
They also serve as what is called "protective style", which means minimising the daily pulling and tugging on hair that can cause breakages.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
A long line of peasants like Anya waited at the windowed building’s huge doors, nervously tugging at shirts or hats, holding long scrolls of paper, or talking in hushed voices to a person beside them.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
