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
• The woman said she was then dragged out of the car and left at the boat launch.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2024
• Here, union hopes have been raised, dashed and dragged out over years.
  — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
• The occupants of the truck were dragged out, kicked and forced up against a wall.
  — Christopher Sherman, ajc, 8 June 2023
• 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
• Long strings of the polymer dragged out, like cheese pulling off of pizza.
  — WIRED, 26 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Others are simply upset at the way the whole process has dragged out.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Stacy went to the basement and dragged out the camcorder recording of Kelsey’s birth.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• 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
• There is no evidence that Mr. Biden has sought to drag out the cases.
  — Linda Qiu, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• Court records show the case dragged out for years, though, because of custody issues.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her family said she was handcuffed and dragged out of the house in an early-morning raid.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The investigations have dragged out and the country has been unable to move on.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Trump’s shown a pattern over decades of dragging out legal challenges against him.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 13 June 2023
• 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
• Minutes later, she was dragged out unconscious and laid on the train platform.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The bobcat did not appear happy about getting dragged out of its hiding place.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
• 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
• In some cases, voters are able to cure their ballot a few days after Election Day, which can further drag out the count.
  — Simmone Shah, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024