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

Use dragged in a sentence

Sentences starting with dragged

Dragged down by the weight of the Apprentice, Mattingley's feet were now firmly on the ground. [11]

Sentences ending with dragged

We were impatient to get away, now, and the rest of our two-hour stop rather dragged. [5]
She had dropped her anchor in perilous seas, but it had never dragged. [11]
A moment later he lifted Denzil in his arms, and carried him over to the steep path up which he was presently dragged. [11]
But the sack had come sooner than it was expected; the people were not thoroughly aroused, and the sale dragged. [5]
Hours sped or dragged. [13]
Life dragged. [11]

Short sentences using dragged

The day dragged slowly along. [10]
Lygon dragged himself out. [11]
It dragged at me. [13]
The afternoon dragged interminably. [9]
I have been dragged down. [9]
The morning dragged along slowly. [6]

More example sentences with the word dragged in them

But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
He dragged our young men with him to Russia, and left them to die moaning on the frozen wastes, while he drove off in his sledge. [9]
His riata was wound around the pummel of my saddle, and so, as he went by he dragged me from my horse and the two animals traveled briskly on without me. [5]
Some swooned and would have drowned had they not been dragged across the canoe and chafed back to consciousness. [9]
And suddenly there would be a shout, and Mammy's turban go flying from her woolly head, or Mammy herself would be dragged down from behind and sat upon. [9]
I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
Old grave-haunting Kusaja, who had been dragged away from the sepulchre of her kindred, was sitting in a cart with other infirm folk, waving her veil and joining in the hymn of praise Elkanah and Abiasaph, the sons of Korah, had begun. [10]
And that prodigy, when Jack was dragged into his presence, and also fell down with Edith and worshiped him in his crib, did actually smile, and appear to know that this man belonged to him, was a part of his worldly possessions. [4]
One of the wheels caught her dress and dragged her down. [10]
At length, after what seemed an age of staring at his legs, the ground caved on him, and he would have smothered if we had not dragged him out by the heels, sputtering and all powdered brown. [9]
But her thoughts were uncontrollable, she was drawn continually to the edge of that precipice which hung over the waters whence they had dragged her, never knowing when the vertigo would seize her. [9]
What their homes were to them, these fellaheen, dragged forth to defend their country, to go into the desert and waste their lives under leaders tyrannous, cruel, and incompetent, his old open life, his innocence, his integrity, his truthfulness and character, were to him. [11]
Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. [2]
So the four went beyond the power of gold and gewgaw, and were dragged in the mire around the walls and flung into the yellow waters of the river. [9]
The twelve long weeks dragged slowly by, and the day of deliverance came at last. [5]
At least that was the theory of his daughters; but the old gentleman had a horror of his early life, and could scarcely be dragged away from the city even in the summer. [4]
From the scuffle-ground was the sign of something about the size of a man having been dragged to the edge of the thicket, where it joined the track of some small-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse, as shown by the road-tracks. [7]
A long consultation was held, but the conclusion was two great stones were brought before Powhatan; then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines. [4]
Standing beside him was a proud father who had dragged his son across two counties in a farm wagon, and who was to return on the morrow to enter this event in the family Bible. [9]
But again there was a flourish of trumpets and loud acclamations, and again an irresistible power dragged her to the window. [10]
Laura pursued her usual course: she encouraged Mr. Buckstone by turns, and by turns she harassed him; she exalted him to the clouds at one time, and at another she dragged him down again. [5]
They dragged themselves upward in a worn and weary way, for they had been climbing steadily from the Grand Mulets, on the Glacier des Dossons, since three in the morning, and it was eleven, now. [5]
He dragged himself upstairs, and brooded in his room a long time, disconsolate and forlorn, with Luigi's Indian knife for a text. [5]
Charley's soul rose up in revolt against the danger that faced him--not against personal peril, but the danger of being dragged back again into the life he had come from, with all that it involved--the futility of this charge against him! [11]
They dragged us up a long inclined chute, and dripped candle-grease all over us. [5]
He went down under the hoofs of the enraged animal, as his huge boar- hound, always with him, fastened on the moose's throat, dragged him to the ground, and tore gaping wounds in his neck. [11]
Yet it was undeniable that the artist and Marion had a common taste for hunting out picturesque places in the wood-paths, among the rocks, and on the edges of precipices, and they dragged the rest of the party many a mile through wildernesses of beauty. [4]
At night he turned to the chain-man to ascertain what distance they had come, and found that by some mistake he had merely dragged the chain over the ground, without keeping any record. [7]
As, during the trip, they had kept up their courage by swallowing the most fiery wine, Philotas had staggered on shore with difficulty and then been dragged forward by the others. [10]
The day he took his degree he had to be dragged from a huge grandfather's chair, and forced along in his ragged gown--"ten holes and twelve tatters"--to the function in the convocation hall. [11]
He was likewise too shrewd to be dragged into political discussions at the boarding-house table. [9]
He felt tempted to throw himself down in the road and sleep, but remembered the frozen people of whom he had heard, and dragged himself on to the nearest village. [10]
Then others endured to the shallows to fall heavily in the crumbled ice and be dragged out before they died. [9]
He was obliged to release the luckless Gaul from the broken timbers of the bridge, and, when Hermon had dragged him out on the opposite bank of the canal, he made no answer to any question. [10]
Mrs. Farquhar vowed to Forbes that she had dragged King along at the request of the proprietor of the hotel, who did not like to send a guest away, but he couldn't have all the trees at Profile Lake disfigured with his cutting and carving. [4]
They dragged her to a tree and threw a rope over the limb, and began to make a noose in it, some holding her, meantime, and she crying and begging, and her young daughter looking on and weeping, but afraid to say or do anything. [5]
For the first time he felt how great a danger he ran of being dragged into this marsh and becoming a lost, evil man; but never, he thought, would he have been so corrupt, so worthless, as this prince. [10]
But the estimated time dragged by and no riders appeared. [13]
But we dragged through and sped away toward the setting sun. [5]
I dragged through three chapters, losing flesh all the time, and then was honest enough to quit, and confess to myself that I haven't any romance literature appetite, as far as I can see, except for your books. [5]
McNeir had his thigh broken by a pike, and was dragged back after the first rush was over; and the mate of the bark was near to drowning, being rescued, indeed, by Graham, the tanner. [9]
She smiled as they dragged her away; and her soul hurried after his to the Camp of the Great Fires. [11]
The wounded dragged themselves out of their rooms and stood with pale but happy faces round the carts. [2]
The Major dragged them out and threw them off the car, and we got under way again. [5]
Does it please their thin ghosts thus to be dragged to the light of day? [6]
It was during their severest distresses, when their most celebrated chief was a captive in their hands, and was dragged through the country as a spectacle for the sport and derision of their people, that she places herself between him and destruction. [4]
The climax to their enmity at school had come one day when Terry was seized with a cramp while bathing, and after having gone down twice was rescued by Jopp, who dragged him out by the hair of the head. [11]
The horses dragged the wagon two miles from town and then gave out. [5]
Charmian timidly lifted the upper layer of the fruit, but the Queen said mournfully: "The wife of Antony dragged through the streets of Rome behind the victor's chariot, a spectacle for the populace and envious matrons! [10]
He hurried to the spot where the first rustler had been dragged by his horse. [13]
The rest of the spectators also kept anxious and uneasy silence while the lictors bound Zminis's hands, and, in spite of his attempts to raise his voice once more in self-defense, dragged him away and thrust him out across the threshold of the dining-hall. [10]
Then filling in the space between the mound and two contiguous stones, the impost could be dragged up to its position. [6]
The prophetess kissed the poor desolate wife's forehead, glanced at her as if she had neglected her in some way, and then questioned the messengers with urgent eagerness concerning their news of Reuben, who had been dragged to the mines. [10]
And breaking for the platform, Thompson got suffocated and fell; and before I got him dragged out, which I did by the collar, I was mighty near gone myself. [5]
She vividly recalled the moment when he had his first stroke and was being dragged along by his armpits through the garden at Bald Hills, muttering something with his helpless tongue, twitching his gray eyebrows and looking uneasily and timidly at her. [2]
The devil dragged the man who did that down to the lower regions long ago, on account of my tongue. [10]
Only think of the innocent Iphigenia who was dragged to the altar; did not the gulf in the Forum close when Curtius had leaped into it? [10]
While some of the guards dragged the prisoners together, counted them, and tied them with ropes, their commander, with the others and his dogs, set off on the track of the fugitive. [10]
People ran from the doorways and sidewalks, but stayed at a comfortable distance until the moose was dragged down; then they made to approach the insensible man. [11]
The warehouses of the capital no doubt contained everything that could be needed, no matter how or when, but Berlin seemed to me too small for all the trash that was dragged out of the houses in that March night. [10]
Then she dragged the body to the middle of the floor, and beat and banged it with chairs and such things. [5]
In less time than it takes me to write these words he had dragged a hideous, naked warrior out of the brambles, and with an avalanche of crumbling earth they slid into the waters of the creek. [9]
With the clammy sweat oozing from every pore Venters dragged the rustler in among some boulders and covered him with slabs of rock. [13]
Cruelly tormented by such thoughts as these, she dragged herself up and felt her way out into the air and wind, for she could no longer hold out in the gloomy solitude and fearful darkness. [10]
Would Harry be such a fool as to be dragged into some public scandal? [5]
He would have struck him, had he not been dragged away by others. [10]
When you were starving he risked his life--" Torn by anxiety for my friend, I dragged myself into the nearest cabin, and a man was fighting there in the half-light at the port. [9]
Let your youngest starve, or beat him to a cripple, else he also will be dragged off to Syria; for Rameses needs much good Egyptian meat for the Syrian vultures. [10]
I heard one startled exclamation from Croz, then saw him and Mr. Hadow flying downward; in another moment Hudson was dragged from his steps, and Lord Douglas immediately after him. [5]
He tried to speak once or twice, then began to shriek an imprecation at Fournel; but the constables clapped hands on his mouth, and dragged him out of the room and out of the house. [11]
He found some solace, however, in provoking his fellow-prisoners to assaults upon each other; and every morning he grinned as he saw the dead and wounded dragged out into the clear sunshine. [11]
My head was so light that it appeared to spin like a star, and my feet were so heavy that I dragged the whole earth after me. [11]
The boat was signalled, it drew near, and two men dragged the body in, as a shark darted forward, just too late, to seize it. [11]
The foaming animal shied at Bartja who was lying in the road, threw his rider and dragged him into the Nile, whose waves became blood-red. [10]
Weeks dragged by, she watching, waiting, hoping, her mind going slowly to wreck under the burden of her misery. [5]
Then, in fancy she saw herself surrounded by a raging mob, dragged to the river and cast into a watery grave before a thousand eyes. [10]
An instant later she had dragged Stafford out from beneath the gun, for it was clear that the madman intended to ride off with it. [11]
Ah, the time she dragged me from under the Russian's mare! [11]
Among other things, she dragged him down to her mission in the city, to which he went in a laughing and bantering mood. [4]
Come, come," and she dragged him away. [5]
Then the procession set off in good order, four or six pupils harnessing themselves voluntarily to the cart in which the kegs of beer were dragged up the Kolm. [10]
To think of seeing you turned out--and then that you may be driven with a dissolute herd in a filthy boat down to the burning south, and dragged to work which kills first the soul and then the body! [10]
You could easy see that something had been dragged over the ground. [5]
Lassiter reached it, searched along the base, and, finding a low place, dragged the weary horse up and over round, smooth stone. [13]
In fact, he said nothing more, but leaped down the bank and strode into the water where the body of Weldon lay, and dragged it out himself. [9]
He removed the rocks and dirt, and dragged the little man out. [11]
He dragged me right along, he was so excited, and I had to run to keep up. [5]
With labour past reckoning we dragged her to shore, and got her on the stocks, and then set about to find materials to mend her. [11]
There seemed no reason why the trial should have dragged on all day, for I soon saw it was intended to find me guilty. [11]
Yet he would rather have been dragged with his brothers to the executioner's block than humbled himself before the Swiss. [10]
A dozen Gippies ran out, dragged him in, and closed the gate. [11]
The public were profoundly concerned; they searched high and low, they dragged the river for his body. [5]
Eulaeus tried to pray for mercy and to speak, but the powerful officer, who hated the contemptible wretch, dragged him up, and out of the room. [10]
But the venomous population of Rattlesnake Ledge had a Gibraltar for their fortress that might have defied the siege-train dragged to the walls of Sebastopol. [6]
The villages and palm-groves were shrouded in shimmering mist, quivering heat, and dazzling yellow light; and the passer-by on the raised dykes of the shore bent his head as he dragged his weary feet through the deep dust. [10]
When Ahieser, the overseer, dragged her out, her wailing made one's heart sore, yet when the time for departure came, the longing to go seized upon her also, and she found it as hard to resist as the others. [10]
I dragged myself over to him as he lay there, and lifted his head and sopped the blood at his neck with my scarf. [11]
Heinz instantly rushed out of the house to meet him, but he had found him beside his steed, which had sunk on its knees, and then, trembling and panting, dragged itself, supported by its rider's hand, into the entry. [10]
She dragged herself out of bed a day later with a new hope. [5]
I dragged myself out from under the indestructible bicycle and sat down on the curb to examine. [5]

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