Use pull in a sentence
Sentences starting with pull
- Pull your courage together, and don't brood, and don't give up. [5]
- Pull up, I tell you! [2]
- Pull it in pieces: there is no hope in it: it is a part of the past; it is the refuse of last year. [4]
- Pull up that other one. [9]
- Pull yourself together; look me in the eye. [5]
- Pull yourself together; I may not be back before evening. [4]
- Pull down your houses and go into bondage! [2]
- Pull Canute's chair back fifty rods at once, and do not wait until he is wet to the knees! [6]
- Pull her down! [5]
- Pull away! [11]
Sentences ending with pull
- The first is thinking too much of himself and his emotions,--the other makes a study of her and her friends, and learns what ropes to pull. [6]
- But there could not have been found in a whole library of dictionaries language sufficient to tell how tired those mules were after their twenty-three mile pull. [5]
Short sentences using pull
- We shall pull through. [4]
- I pull down the flag. [5]
- I guess they'll pull through. [8]
- I could not pull free. [5]
Sentences containing pull two or more times
- I said we better pull our boots off, and his'n too, and not make any noise, then we could pull him and haul him around and ransack him without any trouble. [5]
- I will get away, now, for awhile, so that my luck won't spoil yours; for many and many a time I've noticed that if----there, pull in, pull in, man, you've got a bite! [5]
More example sentences with the word pull in them
- If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
- Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him. [10]
- The idea that you must pull out every one of every nice young man and young woman's natural teeth! [6]
- I am 59 years old; yet I never had a friend before who put out a hand and tried to pull me ashore when he found me in deep waters. [5]
- She knew he would never pull himself together now. [11]
- And sometimes he would go to the corner table, where the four littlest sat, and fetch one back to perch on his knee and pull at his white, military mustache. [9]
- I astonished Mr. Wood; and sometimes he would tilt back his chair, take off his spectacles and pull his beard. [9]
- I do not wonder that Walter Scott dwells so much on eating, or lets his heroes pull at the pewter mugs so often. [4]
- You and March will pull together first-rate. [8]
- Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. [7]
- The quickness with which a woman can pull herself together under such circumstances is testimony to her superior fibre. [4]
- But she sat where she was until the maid came in to pull the curtains and turn on the lights, reminding her that guests were expected. [9]
- He is afraid we'll all pull together. [7]
- Dear old darling, we all think the creditors are going to allow us to resume business; and if they do we shall pull through and pay the debts. [5]
- His instinctive action was to pull Pepper down to a walk, scarcely analyzing his motives; then he had time, before reaching the spot where their paths would cross, to consider and characteristically to enjoy the unpropitious elements arrayed against a friendship with Victoria Flint. [9]
- His whole appearance was so grotesque, I felt for a minute as if there was a showman behind him who would pull him down presently and put up Judy, or the hangman, or the Devil, or some other wooden personage of the famous spectacle. [6]
- While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. [2]
- You know there was a time, Mr. Hodder, when I didn't have much hope that we'd pull her through. [9]
- We had a very long pull, after that, without any shade. [5]
- It is a very agreeable climb up Newport, and not difficult; but if the sun is out, one feels, after scrambling over the rocks and walking home by the dusty road, like taking a long pull at a cup of shandygaff. [4]
- The man who uses trust-money for three days, to acquire in those three days a fortune, certain as magnificent, would pull up short beforehand if the issue of theft or honesty were put squarely before him. [11]
- Then he looked up, and seeing her, reached above his head to pull the lever that shut off the power. [9]
- He just stood up there, a-sailing around as easy and comfortable as if he warn't ever drunk in his life--and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them. [5]
- Sometimes dey'd pull up at de sho' en take a res' b'fo' dey started acrost, so by de talk I got to know all 'bout de killin'. [5]
- It provides that under certain conditions she can pull the string and land the property in the cherished home of its happy youth. [5]
- His nerves were uncertain, but, strange to say, when (it was not often) any serious case of illness came under his hands, he was somehow able to pull himself together and do his task gallantly enough. [11]
- Either of the two might pull together, but the combination of the three is certainly disastrous. [4]
- It was called twelve miles, straight out to the islands--a long pull and a warm one--but the morning was so quiet and sunny, and the lake so smooth and glassy and dead, that we could not resist the temptation. [5]
- He recognized her, tried to pull up his horse as it was dashing forward, and smilingly shook his head at her, as much as to say: "She is a giddy creature and deserves a good scolding; but who could be angry with her? [10]
- He was driving toward Pierre in a covered gig, sitting beside a young surgeon, and on recognizing Pierre he told the Cossack who occupied the driver's seat to pull up. [2]
- Apparently it appeals to the typographer, who devotes to it his worthy art, as well as to the job printer, who may pull a crudely printed proof. [5]
- He turned quickly to the crowd, for some had sprung towards the platform to pull him off. [11]
- But she begin to talk to them so sof', and to pull ver' steady, and at last she get them shaping to the shore. [11]
- He can't bear to see the whip used, or to see a horse pull hard. [5]
- King was ready to pull the boat on to the float, and Irene stood by the landing expectant. [4]
- The magician began to pull his wits together, and when he presently smiled an easy, nonchalant smile, it spread a mighty relief around; for it indicated that his mood was not destructive. [5]
- He would pull thy old beard, an' thou didst offer him such an insolence. [5]
- We shall pull through to Milan tomorrow if possible. [5]
- It couldn't be those wires above, For they could neither pull nor shove; Where was the motor that made it go You couldn't guess, but now you know. [6]
- He was terribly thirsty; he needed something to pull himself together. [11]
- With their fingers they pull out thorns and burs, and hunt for each other's parasites. [1]
- 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]
- The sight of them sufficed mine host, for he went out as fast as his legs would go, giving the bell a sharp pull as he passed the door; and presently I heard him complimenting two gentlemen into the house. [9]
- Let's jam in the whole capital and pull out ninety! [5]
- He himself felt the pull of the young clergyman's personality, and instinctively strove to resist it: and was more than ever struck by Mr. Hodder's resemblance to the cliff sculpture of which he had spoken at the vestry meeting. [9]
- A pool served the office of refrigerator, and Mr. Cooke had devised an ingenious but complicated arrangement of strings and labels which enabled him to extract any bottle or set of bottles without having to bare his arm and pull out the lot. [9]
- You are not the man who can pull wool over my eyes. [5]
- I would only the language method--the luxurious, elaborate construction compress, the eternal parenthesis suppress, do away with, annihilate; the introduction of more than thirteen subjects in one sentence forbid; the verb so far to the front pull that one it without a telescope discover can. [5]
- Little on little the horses pull up, and stop at last not a hunder' feet from the great crack and the rotten ice. [11]
- The answer of the garrison was a defiant cheer, and those who had dropped, finding they were not shot at, picked themselves up again and gained the top, helping to pull the ladders after them. [9]
- One doctor thought that Ham's remarkable vitality would pull him through, in spite of what his life had been. [9]
- Perhaps she knew that a bud will never come to flower if you pull it in pieces. [4]
- You've seen the ten-times- a-failure pull out. [11]
- It has a straw through it; you pull this out, and it leaves a flue, otherwise there would be no draught, not even as much as there is to a nail. [5]
- They're drawin' the stragglers, an' that'll pull the whole herd. [13]
- Yesterday there would still have been time to pull his foot out of the spring, if only he had sincerely desired it; he knew the hunter's guile. [10]
- Once more that steady pull began, and once more I lay torpid a century of dragging seconds till my breast was naked again. [5]
- We did not stay at Zermatt, but pushed on for the hotel on the top of the Riffelberg,--a very stiff and tiresome climb of about three hours, an unending pull up a stony footpath. [4]
- But he was soon surrounded by the chariots of the enemy; the king saw the enemy pull down the young prince's horses, and all his comrades--among whom were many of the best warriors--turn their horses in flight. [10]
- They were, however, so confused that a pull at one string tangled them all. [11]
- I'll float the skiff down there, and I'll pull it back again all by myself. [5]
- Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented. [4]
- The police would scare him to death first with a storm of their elegant blasphemy, and then pull him to pieces getting him away from there. [5]
- But for the resistance of the turned-up end of the reversed bench, the current would pull the buoy under water. [5]
- He succeeded in raising her high out of the waves, but when he tried to pull her fairly out of her watery bed, the weight, all on one side of the boat, was too great; it turned over and Antinous was in the sea. [10]
- She stooped down quick at the foot of the bed and give me a pull, and out I come; and when he turned back from the window there she stood, a-beaming and a-smiling like a house afire, and I standing pretty meek and sweaty alongside. [5]
- M'sieu' saw and pull, but they go the faster. [11]
- Did I not pull you into the coffee-room of the Star and Garter years ago, and tell you that same? [9]
- And a short pull of the Three-Star together for the partin' salute,' says he. [11]
- They want to pull it down, and go back to living in trees and caves. [9]
- Sonya did not pull it away, and left off crying. [2]
- Wild horses can't pull her away from him. [5]
- It is a pity we did not pull together; but I was hasty, and he was rash. [11]
- Both were so paralyzed with joy that before they could pull themselves together and make an effort to stop the car, it was gone too far, and they decided to wait for the next one. [5]
- He's sent him out West to pull that street railway chestnut out of the fire. [9]
- A new edifice or two may be put up, and a new library begun in the course of the same century; but these places are poor, for the most part, and cannot afford to pull down their old barracks. [6]
- If you pull one, the charm is gone. [5]
- But all agree on two matters: that he did things hitherto unknown in the countryside; and that he was free and affable, but could pull one up smartly if necessary. [11]
- I might go on the rocks; but was there ever a gambler who didn't believe that he'd pull it off in a big way next time, and that the turn of the wheel against him was only to tame his spirit? [11]
- Malice meets us on every road, but in Germany we do not pull one another's hair on the highway over every venomous or foolish word. [10]
- But the spirit of the Honourable Adam did not respond to the weather, and he had certain vague forebodings as his horse jogged toward Hull, although these did not take such a definite shape as to make him feel a premonitory pull of his coat-tails. [9]
- He caught sight of the Celebrity's back between the trees, then he looked at the cat-boat entering the cove, a man in the stern preparing to pull in the tender. [9]
- In the course of one interview he had conveyed to Lise, without arousing her antagonism, the conviction that it was wiser to trust him than to attempt to pull wool over his eyes. [9]
- With the energy of desperation I was bending to the pull, when the Malay in front of me sank dead across the tackle. [9]
- They pull the oars of society, and have no leisure to watch the currents running this or that way; let theorists and philosophers attend to them. [3]
- The lovely Sarah, now with her arms folded, and now with her hands clasped behind her, paced the room with manly strides while her brother was thus employed, and sometimes stopped to pull out her snuff-box and bite the lid. [12]
- Still, it is now necessary to begin to pull, and to keep it up; for lack of space requires us to synopsize. [5]
- However, there is nothing for it but to penelopize, pull to pieces, and stitch away again. [6]
- And is it not pretty sport, to pull up two pence, six pence, and twelve pence as fast as you can hale and veere a line?... [4]
- You get a new combination every time you pull a string. [11]
- For we must needs pull a mile up the stream ere we could reach the passage in which to shoot downward to the Falls. [9]
- I can pull myself together with it. [11]
- I shall pull myself together with a little rest. [4]
- The senator told Mr. Crewe that just such a man as he was needed to pull the State out of the rut into which she had fallen. [9]
- It is no more a short-cut we desire, but a road of easy grades, with a locomotive that will pull our train along while we sit in a palace-car at ease. [4]
- It costs three months of writing and telegraphing to pull off a success. [5]
- She stood a moment to pull the intaglio ring from the finger where Beaton put it a year ago, and dashed that at her father's plate. [8]
- The captain pull me up and ask why. [11]
- A citizen told me they don't have teeth filled, but pull them out and put in false ones, and that now and then one sees a young lady with a full set. [5]
- Did you pull me out of the water? [6]
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