• His legs are racing forward like two horses pulling a runaway carriage and his arms circling outward in the air like two sailors tied to the mast of sinking ship.
• Animal lover Mrs Trueman's funeral carriage was pulled by the horses used in the recent funeral of East End gangster Reggie Kray.
• Just five or ten years ago, the potato men would have come down this street in a wooden wagon pulled by a horse.

• The fact that the rumble from those slash cut exhausts sounds most impressive when the engine's pulling from low revs might have had something to do with it…
• However, power is abundant, particularly from 3000 rpm upwards when the engine pulls particularly strongly, making it feel more like a petrol.
• That the engine pulls firmly, with a creamy, discreet blare, across a broad rev-range helps.

• ‘We were supposedly to pull a name out of the hat as part of a game and I pulled out his,’ recalls Rona.
• Sam pulled out her black book and opened it, pulling a pencil from her bag.
• From behind his back, he pulled out a menu like he was a magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat.

Synonyms

• With great effort, she pulled herself back and slid her sword back against his blade.
• Marc moved his leg gingerly and with great effort pulled himself to his feet.
• With no small effort, the helicopter pulls itself 25 ft in the air and reveals that the horizon line is no longer a line at all but a squiggle drawn from 30,000 people standing in a row.

• She felt like she had a back strain or pulled ligament in her right side above her hip.
• I knew someone who pulled both their hamstring muscles because they didn't stretch.
• Pleasurable when you get there but try not to pull a muscle or strain something else trying to saddle up.

Synonyms

• Have you ever had someone pull a gun on you?
• He allegedly pulled a gun on a youth football coach because his son wasn't getting enough playing time at a game in northeast Phiiladelphia.
• Cops claim he pulled a rifle on them when they were in his town house, allegedly looking for a burglar.

Synonyms

• The staff know what they're doing, and how to pull a pint, but will leave you in peace.
• Pretend you've worked in a pub before, learn how to pull a decent pint and your laughing!

• He took a pull at his pipe.
• Filling them in our imagination with rugs and pack saddles and couched animals and merchants pulling on hookahs.
• He took another pull at the now half-gone smoke and leaned back again with a sudden hard grin.

• A chill descends down my spine as I pull away from the Caddy.
• He didn't make a move to stop her or pull away from her.
• I pull away from Jeremy, my left hand moving straight to my mouth.

• Within the meteorological fraternity will they henceforth be held in awe and get the best seats at the annual Christmas dance and pull the cutest weather girls?
• True, it is risky going on the pull in pretentious nightclubs if you are blind: you might just pull an ugly sister.

• The lefties on this site are pulling a classic liberal trick.
• The riot was a dirty trick which was pulled off through the use of deception, and Bloggergate is the same thing.
• We skated there for a while and everyone seemed to be pulling the newest tricks.

• When I said I was going to pull a player from a game tomorrow, it's not because I'm thinking he will be tired the next day.
• Narron has told all players that if they don't get to a base they are supposed to get to, they will be pulled from the game.
• He has shown he will pull any player who has a defensive lapse.

• If pulled for speeding in Virginia, do I have the right to ask the officer to see the radar?
• My dad was pulled for drunk driving.

• As riders attempted to avoid the fallen horse, they pulled their horses up and effectively out of the race.

• Lefthanded hitters pull the ball, and sure-handed righthanders slap the ball to the opposite field.
• If you swing down steeply and then follow through flat, you're likely to slice or pull the ball.

• With the plane disintegrating around him, O'Grady reached down between his knees and grabbed the pull handle of his ejection seat.
• Taking safety seriously whilst wearing a lifejacket, be aware of where the manual pull handle is, even if it is ‘automatic’.
• Made of 1800 denier polyester, it has a retractable pull handle and inline skate wheels.

• Tahr took a pull of her drink, then stared at it as if wishing it were something stronger.
• She looked at him and took a long pull of her drink.
• She takes a deep pull and starts coughing really hard and laughing at the same time.

Synonyms

• WIM takes a pull from a handmade cigarette, scoops the bones up without looking, then casts them again.
• Black & Mild cigars tasted a lot like black coffee from the initial pull.
• He laughed a little, putting the pipe back in his mouth for a long pull.

Synonyms

• I had always pulled hard, but never seemed to get much distance or speed from the pull relative to the effort I put forth.

• The result has been few problems with hamstring pulls, rib-cage injuries and shoulder strains.
• He got more bruises and cuts, muscle pulls and strains than he could remember.
• He has worked diligently on his conditioning, hoping to prevent muscle pulls and strains, which have hampered him during the season.

• Henry Street continues to exert a strong pull, attracting more shoppers than Grafton Street at all peak shopping periods this quarter.
• Strange, though, exerts a pull, it draws you in to a place you've never been and may not understand, but which takes on a palpable and seductive existence.
• Despite his track record Davies admits to being in awe of Doctor Zhivago, largely because the 1965 film version still exerts such a pull.

Synonyms

• Up to now if you had political pull or you could pressurise those who had you shunted yourself up the priority list ahead of schools in greater need.
• While the UK is number one in European biotechnology, there is far less market pull, especially within healthcare, in Europe compared with the US.
• Smaller companies without political pull will be liquidated if they don't fill the quota; larger companies will be left alone.

Synonyms

• Basically, a bunch of women are shrieking laughter at each other while they neck Lambrini before heading out on the pull, staggering around like chimps at a tea-party.
• At least, I think it is a glare, maybe the old roué is on the pull and has mistaken the duchess of Cornwall for one of the ladies of the night that are standard fare at Tory party parties.
• I don't go out on the pull, and the realm of one-night stands seems to be beyond someone with my looks and personality.