How do you use Tug in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pull or draw, plus the exact meaning.
Tug in a sentence
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Tug meaning
- To pull or drag with great effort.
- To pull hard repeatedly.
- To tow by tugboat.
Synonyms of Tug
Using Tug
- The main meaning on this page is: To pull or drag with great effort. | To pull hard repeatedly. | To tow by tugboat.
- Useful related words include: pull, draw, fight, struggle.
- In the example corpus, tug often appears in combinations such as: tug of, tug at, the tug.
Context around Tug
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 15 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tug
- In this selection, "tug" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, harbor, emotional, anticipated, marinette, company and amid stand out and add context to how "tug" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tug of war and against the tug company wainwright. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tug" sits close to words such as ailing, bale and beatrice, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tug
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Denji himself embodies the tug-of-war between hilarity and seriousness. (11 words)
Hay on Wye tug of war team is bound for Switzerland. (11 words)
But tearing down Three Rivers was an emotional tug on the heartstrings. (12 words)
In 2018, Andy weighed in on 's decision to star in, then pull out of, playing a transgender man in the planned project "Rug and Tug" amid a backlash over a non-trans actor taking the role. (37 words)
Looking at how things are playing out, it seems like we may be stuck in a tug of war around the key technical level above until we get to the US CPI and Fed decision next week. (37 words)
In nearly every one of Asimov's calculations the tug-of-war value was found to be greater than one, so in those cases the Sun loses the tug-of-war with the planets. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
In nearly every one of Asimov's calculations the tug-of-war value was found to be greater than one, so in those cases the Sun loses the tug-of-war with the planets.
After months of waiting, we finally have Hayao Miyazaki’s magnum opus in the form of The Boy and the Heron, ready to hit the screen and tug at your heartstrings.
A large harbor tug, Marinette was known as a workhorse and performed tugging services for the 5th Naval District, headquartered at Norfolk, Virginia into 1969.
A tug of war of toxicity between two of Memphis’s finest rappers, “On Wat U On” is unsentimental and testy.
But tearing down Three Rivers was an emotional tug on the heartstrings.
Charges under the Workers Compensation Act were laid last month against the tug company, Wainwright Marine Services, and one of its senior officials, alleging violations of occupational health and safety regulations.
Competitions ranged from craft, cooking, floral and not forgetting the eagerly anticipated Tug of War competition and on-stage performances which certainly got the crowds going.
Denji himself embodies the tug-of-war between hilarity and seriousness.
Emergency clinician Adam Pfefferle DVM shares a bonding moment playing tug of war with a Jack Russel terrier named Bindi at Fetch Emergency Vets in Brandon.
First, the finance ministry’s apparent disregard for economic growth and, second, its failure to reflect the true effect of austerity, as well as an ongoing political tug-of-war, on the public purse.
Hay on Wye tug of war team is bound for Switzerland.
He was sentenced to nine years in a maximum security penal colony in 2022 after years of tug-of-war with the Russian authorities.
In 2018, Andy weighed in on 's decision to star in, then pull out of, playing a transgender man in the planned project "Rug and Tug" amid a backlash over a non-trans actor taking the role.
It didn’t nick or tug at my skin, even the delicate skin under my arm where other razors with multiple blades and fancier foils got snagged and zinged me.
It is also developing spacedrop, a space logistics service that features a tug to deploy satellites to their desired orbits.
It’s possible that attempts to tug the boat caused it to capsize, which has been strongly denied by the coastguard.
Jupiter has a strong gravitational pull which creates tides that "stretch and tug" on the moon, an action that produces heat.
Last night, a witness to the horror accident claimed the tug was towing cruise ship the MV Hebridean Princess.
Looking at how things are playing out, it seems like we may be stuck in a tug of war around the key technical level above until we get to the US CPI and Fed decision next week.
Mexico sits right in the middle of this geopolitical tug of war and will figure out creative ways to bid up the “out of ground” cost.
Common combinations with tug
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tug of 50×
- tug at 19×
- the tug 18×
- to tug 16×
- tug on 13×
- tug and 9×
- and tug 8×
- tug boat 8×
- in tug 7×
- tug the 6×