How to Use drag out in a Sentence
drag out
phrasal verb-
But that could change the longer the dilemma drags out.
—David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
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The woman said she was then dragged out of the car and left at the boat launch.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2024
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Here, union hopes have been raised, dashed and dragged out over years.
—Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
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The occupants of the truck were dragged out, kicked and forced up against a wall.
—Christopher Sherman, ajc, 8 June 2023
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Adult men were lynched, but this was the first time a child was dragged out of his home and had his eye gouged out.
—Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
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Long strings of the polymer dragged out, like cheese pulling off of pizza.
—WIRED, 26 June 2023
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The deputy opens and closes the door, and at one point reopens the door and the boy is dragged out of the back seat and pinned facedown on the ground.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
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Clothes and linens will take longer to dry which can, in turn, drag out the chore of doing laundry.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2024
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Others are simply upset at the way the whole process has dragged out.
—Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
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Others are simply upset at the way the whole process has been dragged out.
—Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
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Choate, dead, was dragged out to a car, tied with a rope to the bumper and dragged by his neck about 300 yards to the courthouse, Minor wrote.
—Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
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Stacy went to the basement and dragged out the camcorder recording of Kelsey’s birth.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
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In a sign of how long the appeal process can drag out, that case is still winding its way through E.U. courts.
—Adam Satariano, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
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There is no evidence that Mr. Biden has sought to drag out the cases.
—Linda Qiu, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
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At times, mostly near the end, the performance clips can drag out, even when the artistry is at the highest level.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
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Salam Subhi Abu Jabal, 50, said her husband was dragged out of their bedroom in the middle of the night.
—Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
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But do the small spills and messes really require dragging out the whole horse-and-pony show of the uprights?
—Grace Smith, Southern Living, 5 July 2023
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And the longer Jody Allen drags out the process, the more likely someone who does not share that ambition gets involved in the bidding process.
—Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 June 2023
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Her family said she was handcuffed and dragged out of the house in an early-morning raid.
—Niha Masih, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
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Has to be dragged out next to GoJo’s Lukas Matsson for a painful photo-op with blood still wet on his forehead.
—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 29 May 2023
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The investigations have dragged out and the country has been unable to move on.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
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The next day, he was dragged out by his comrades and evacuated to a hospital in Crimea.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
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Trump’s shown a pattern over decades of dragging out legal challenges against him.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 13 June 2023
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If the outage drags out, the practice won’t be able to buy the chemotherapy that its patients depend on for treatment.
—Cnbc, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024
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Minutes later, she was dragged out unconscious and laid on the train platform.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
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The bobcat did not appear happy about getting dragged out of its hiding place.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
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This will then spit out four different images that can be dragged out of the main app window and placed around the home like virtual posters or prints.
—Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 2 Feb. 2024
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Glass is not afraid of lingering on an open wound or dragging out hand-to-hand combat to the most gruesome conclusions.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
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Complete your yard work without having to drag out a long extension cord.
—Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2023
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For nine months, the bloody fight for this eastern city has dragged out inch by inch, with massive casualties on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides.
—Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
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