in-a-sentence.com, use drag in a sentence

Use drag in a sentence

Sentences ending with drag

For days the cruise was pleasant enough, and then things began to drag. [11]
I am now awaiting, at dawn, for the morning train--and how the minutes drag, how they drag! [5]
Josephine had become a drag. [9]

Sentences containing drag two or more times

Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
Every day, it is drag, drag, drag--think, and worry and suffer--all the world is a dull blank, and yet the editorial columns must be filled. [5]
We've got to drag along, drag along, and eat crusts in toil and poverty, all hopeless and forlorn--but they'll ride in coaches, Nancy! [5]

More example sentences with the word drag in them

If I were your age and able to drag myself to the street, I should be at the Arsenal now. [9]
And even if you turn me out of the house--I will not help to drag us into deeper wretchedness; I will take no part in the performances. [10]
I don't believe you could drag them away from Gretchen with nine span of horses. [5]
The orator's passionate words and gestures evoked wild responses from his hearers, whom the drag of an ancient hatred had snatched from the peaceful asylum of the west. [9]
Sometimes I sat with my back against the dunes watching the drag of the outgoing water rolling the pebbles after it, making a gleaming floor for the light to dance. [9]
Then, as if with a great effort, and after the manner of one who has learned a part, he went on: "As the French ran away mad, paw of one on tail of other, they found him trying to drag himself along. [11]
You, Alphonse Durien, who was it drag you out of the bog at the Cote Chaudiere? [11]
The pale horseman who had clutched her in her dream should not drag her away; no, she would joyfully lift him up to the highest pinnacle attainable by a brave and noble man. [10]
By and by, whenever poor Yates saw him coming, he would turn and fly, and drag his company with him, if he had company; but it was of no use; his debtor would run him down and corner him. [5]
So,' he says, 'we tie our faces up with kerchiefs and turn our heads away as we drag them off: we can hardly do it. [2]
But this bet was what compelled me to drag you all from Kadolzburg and its charms so early, and induce you to attend me on the reckless ride through the moonlit night. [10]
Philippus, quite undaunted, was trying to adjust the bandage over his wound, when Rustem suddenly flung his arms round his body and tried with all his might, and with foaming lips, to drag him down. [10]
It is a very relief to steal a walk of a hundred yards without a guide along to talk unceasingly about every stone you step upon and drag you back ages and ages to the day when it achieved celebrity. [5]
But in the universal uproar only a few had heard his words, and the hot-blooded tailor was so rash as to lay his hand on the praetor's girdle in order to drag him away from the door with the help of his comrades. [10]
You drag me to see it, and when you land me there, because I don't lose my head immediately, you say you don't want it. [9]
You are dear to me; yet--by the head of my father!--if you defy me, my Numidian lion-keepers shall drag you to the place you belong to! [10]
One who seeks to drag what is dearest from the river does not consider whether the cold bath is agreeable. [10]
The saddle-bag began to drag her down; she gasped for breath, she thought her heart was bursting. [13]
My impulse was to charge the procession, seize Nick and the drum together, and drag them back to my room; but the futility and danger of such a course were apparent, and the caution for which I am noted prevented my undertaking it. [9]
I always admire this art by which the accomplished story-teller lets his listener drag the reluctant tale of the marvelous from him, and makes you in a manner responsible for its improbability. [4]
You dare to think that you have power to drag down with you the man who honours me with--" "With his love, you'd say. [11]
At nine o'clock there was a pull at the bell that threatened to drag the wire out, and an insignificant little urchin appeared with a telegram, which frightened Miss Forsythe, and seemed to Margaret to drop out of heaven. [4]
If the devil then had power over his soul, his imps might drag him wherever they pleased, if only he might see little Juli there and hear her call "Baba" and "Father. [10]
The legs of the heavy animal were tied together with ropes, and Marx was obliged to take the ends of the knot between his teeth like a bridle, and drag the carcass to the castle. [10]
At Wolf's entrance the German youth, like a drowning man who sees a friend on the shore, shrieked an entreaty to save him from the murderers who wanted to drag him to death. [10]
When we reached the garden we found Dolly seated beside her mother on my grandfather's bench, from which stronghold our combined tactics were powerless to drag her. [9]
The top of the cylinder was removable; and it was said to be a common thing for the baser order of tourists to drag the dead face into view and examine it and comment upon it. [5]
He had tasted the blood of his own rhymes; and when a poet gets as far as that, it is like wringing the bag of exhilarating gas from the lips of a fellow sucking at it, to drag his piece away from him. [6]
I never knew the almanac to drag so. [5]
Despite the fact that the memories she had cherished were now become hideous things, she sought to drag them forth and compare them, ruthlessly, with what must have been the treasures of Lise. [9]
Haven't you thought that he will drag you down, down, down, wear out your soul, break and sicken your life, destroy your beauty--you are beautiful, my dear, beyond what the world sees, even. [11]
It is probable that he knew that, and refrained from letting her into the knowledge of this vice, contracted in the war when, seriously ill, he was able to drag himself about from patient to patient only by the help of opium. [11]
Straight from her that could hardly drag herself about--ah, yes, and has been as handsome a woman as ever was!--straight from her he went to a slut. [11]
But the talk soon began to drag, and then died. [5]
He forget that some one wait--wait--wait, till he has suffer long enough, or till, one day, he think he is happy again, and the Thing he did is far off like a dream--to drag him out to the death he did not die. [11]
General opinion (had she waited to hear it among the horse sheds or on the green), that Jethro's soul had slid back into the murky regions, from which it were folly for even Cynthia to try to drag it. [9]
Had he, then, saved the lad from the rapids and Silver Tassel's brutality only to have him drag fish out of the jaws of death for Silver Tassel's meal? [11]
When I overtook Sandy she was horrified, and said it was in the last degree indelicate to drag a countess by her train. [5]
At this, one rode forward suddenly, and clutched me at my waist to drag me from my horse. [11]
All these people presently managed to drag themselves to the vicinity of the Hawkins' wagon, and there they took up permanent positions, hands in pockets and resting on one leg; and thus anchored they proceeded to look and enjoy. [5]
I drag this poor woman from the bosom of her family at a minute's notice, and she goes on getting fainter and fainter before my eyes. [12]
Then came the pitiful Revolution, the sundering of all ties, the elder man left to drag out his few weary days before a shattered altar. [9]
Metaphysics are above physics, and drag not matter, or what is termed that, into one of its premises or conclusions. [5]
Euergetes scorns me--you, Philometor, would be glad to drag me down! [10]
And she, rightfully, ought to have fallen before them; and if the pestilence should seize her and death should drag her down into the grave it would be showing her mercy. [10]
She had then only to drag them into the lodge and prepare their food. [5]
Chains, even golden ones, drag us down, but liberty gives wings. [10]
For the sake of the first person that came to you as a poor substitute for our lost daughter, you are ready to go to your death, and to drag me with you into the gloom of Hades. [10]
And I will not be a drag on your pleasures, Richard, or stand in the way of your prospects. [9]
From what hangman's noose did you drag out the neck of one, and from what headsman's block did you rescue the other when you found them? [10]
Several times last night, when the supernumeraries entered the arena to drag out the bodies, the young ruffians in the gallery shouted, "Supe! [5]
I says to myself, they'll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and then drag the river for me. [5]
I took one myself, drawn by an old man, to see how I liked it, and found it very convenient, but I was tempted to ask him to change places and let me drag him. [6]
She refused the marriage at first; she said Fulbert would betray the secret to save her, and besides, she did not wish to drag down a lover who was so gifted, so honored by the world, and who had such a splendid career before him. [5]
There is no literature, ancient or modern, that they do not dig up by the roots and turn over, no history that they do not drag before the club for final judgment. [4]
It means that, like you, I have found a rope to drag myself out of this stream which sweeps me on to the rapids. [11]
Nowadays, people are less merciful, and let men like us drag the cripple's mark through life. [10]
Fergus and Jopp knew well from the blow O'Ryan had given that, unless they could drag him down, the end must be disaster to some one. [11]
If love and joy had any substantial weight, the horses would have found it a hard matter to drag the vehicle swiftly on. [10]
He might drag it in, but he was aware that with her mind distracted by more immediate interests he could not get from her that judgment, that reasoned divination, which he relied upon so much. [8]
There was that in her which would drag at her footsteps in this new life. [11]
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! [5]
At any rate, I couldn't come to you to encumber you, to be a drag upon you. [9]
Get into the house as quick as you can, or to-morrow we shall have to drag you off as we did the chest to-day! [10]
I can't drag her name into a row about it. [4]
It told my heart that death by one's own hand meant shame; and I saw then that to find rest I must drag unwilling feet over the good name and memory of my dead loved ones. [11]
And now, as he paced the streets with heavy, almost blundering tread,--so did the weight of slander drag him down--his thoughts suddenly saw a picture which had gone deep down into his soul in far-off days. [11]
Without more ado he jumped upon Mattingley's shoulders and began to drag him down. [11]
There now--if you have not time to read all this, turn it over to "Jock" and drag in the judge to help. [5]
The bear must have drag me here. [11]
The little donkeys had saddles upon them which were made very high in order that the rider's feet might not drag the ground. [5]
The Queen's soldiers had probably carried him to prison, loaded with chains, if Philostratus had not already instigated the mob to drag him through the streets. [10]
A hacking cough had never left me since my attempt at escape, and I was miserably thin, and so weak that I could hardly drag myself about my dungeon. [11]
If a grandly gifted man may drag his pride and his manhood in the dirt for bread rather than starve with the nobility that is in him untainted, the excuse is a valid one. [5]
If her flight from the Serapeum and the rescue of Diodoros by Andreas had really been but a dream, then the door might open at any moment, and the Egyptian Zminis or his men might come in to drag her before that dreadful Caesar. [10]
Her motherly instincts found an outlet in the care of the half-crushed, but not hopelessly lost man; and the desire to drag him back to life kept her busy day and night, and made her regard everything else as trivial and of secondary importance. [10]
I should be foreman of a factory, that is about all; and could drag a seine down street any day and catch a hundred better men than myself. [5]
It was not for a man broken down in the world, to drag down any woman to his paltry circumstances. [4]
But it was farther than I thought, and at last I had go give it up; I was so tired I couldn't drag my feet another step; and besides, they were sore and hurt me very much. [5]
In her mind's eye she saw Caracalla, after hearing of her flight, set his lions on Philostratus, and then, foaming with rage, give orders to drag her father and brothers, Polybius and his son, to the place of execution, like Titianus. [10]
The weakling will drag the Queen's splendid courage with him into the dust. [10]
He wanted to drag the letter from his pocket and hand it her to read; to tell her the whole distressful story: but he dared not. [11]
As the years drag on, and on, and on, the friends of the Master's youth grow old; and one by one they totter to the grave: he goes on with his proud fight, and will not yield. [5]
They did not drag her away at once, but sang with her for a long time and then at last dragged her off, and behind the scenes something metallic was struck three times and everyone knelt down and sang a prayer. [2]
Something seemed to drag at Venters's feet and he noticed Bess lagged behind. [13]
The time does drag along so, and I'm so dying to see them! [5]
Sometimes she would drag a mat and a pillow into one of the great empty rooms, and, wrapping herself in a shawl, coil up and go to sleep in a corner. [6]
And so this disposition to drag in an old indecent anecdote got no welcome; nobody answered. [5]
Once in the desert, when men were dying round him of fever and dysentery, he had been obliged, exhausted and ill, scarce able to drag himself from his bed, to resort to an opiate to allay his own sufferings, that he might minister to others. [11]
In the hospitals, death was so certain that soldiers suffering from fever, or the swelling that came from bad food, preferred to remain on duty, and hardly able to drag their legs went to the front rather than to the hospitals. [2]
Your parents are dead, your brothers might protect you, but should the people lay hands on them, the same stones on which you cross the stream would drag you down into the depths with them. [10]
After two hours' dead silence and suffering on my part I made out to drag him off, and did not stop running until I was a mile from the house. [4]
How could he dare to drag her into his uncertain and compromised position? [10]
The isolated and charmless existence you drag through here, to the satisfaction of none and least of all to your own, you can transform to one of fruition and satisfaction--breathing and moving healthily and beneficently in the light of day. [10]
Once he contrived, by main force, to drag her out into the hall. [9]
He would not be likely to knock you down and drag you out, in mistake for the rowdy who was assaulting you. [4]
Bowman's men swung back into place, the rattle and drag were heard in the blockhouse as the cannon were run out through the ports, and the battle which had held through the night watches began again with redoubled vigor. [9]
And how slow and still the time did drag along. [5]
He wandered on and on, and grew more and more bewildered, and so tired and faint he could hardly drag one foot after the other. [5]
You will be always for climbing, if some woman does not drag you back. [11]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word drag in a sentence? How do you use drag in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word drag? It contains example sentences with the word drag, a sentence example for drag, and drag in sample sentence.