tugging
Example Sentences
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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
The starchy pasta water, slowly whisked in, binds it all into a sauce that clings and stretches, tugging at each bite with just enough tension to remind you that this is pasta, not soup.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
“Other components of the economy are tugging on the consumer,” said Ivan Drury, an automotive analyst for the car-shopping website Edmunds.com.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
In fact, when the idea for “Pluribus” began tugging at Gilligan years ago, in the midst of “Better Call Saul,” he initially envisioned it having a male protagonist.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
Boomer lays his head in my lap, and I rub his ears, tugging them gently the way Gram used to.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
