• He drags David to the event, and ends up proposing to his new girlfriend.
• It also meant that, as her best friend, I was usually dragged to whatever event that gossip may lead her too.
• Like a mad tugboat, my friend Michael nonetheless seemed eager to drag me to the event.

• The church is dragging itself, however reluctantly in some quarters, into the 21st century.
• Reluctantly we dragged ourselves away from bashing rock solid flowers frozen to minus 196 degrees Celsius.
• Reluctantly, I drag myself from the security of sleep.

• If you'd like to move your text, click and hold your left mouse button to drag your text to your desired position.
• In graphical editors, to change a block of text, click and drag the mouse to highlight the text, then click an icon or menu option or type a keyboard shortcut.
• Internet Radio stations are added by browsing to the website, and dragging the icon of the desired station into the drop window.

• Her ghoulish black clothing dragged tragically along the ground.
• Cherry strolled slowly, her dark red skirt dragging along the ground.
• Taidra quickly moved to her closet door, her servant dress dragging along the ground.

• He once said to me ‘I can't understand fellows pulling and dragging at a player, if you go for a ball don't waste petrol, make one journey.’
• With the considerable football hype that is pulling and dragging at his sporting consciousness, it is vital that the senior hurlers are not overlooked.
• They are outwardly charming but ultimately ruled by darker forces, like the fierce undertow that pulls and drags at the coast of the Breton island where this beguiling novel is set.

• The crew made a distress call after their 47 foot yacht started dragging its anchor and was in danger of going ashore onto the rocks.
• Many a boat has dragged anchor and been smashed to pieces there.
• Her propeller shaft was fouled and she was dragging her anchor, so Endurance, some 25 miles away when the call went out, closed in at top speed to act as on-scene commander.

• This allows a user to input the swing and drag circles and activates an alarm if the anchor begins to drag or another ship is about to move within the danger circle.
• You are set for the night, unless the wind picks up and/or the tidal current causes your anchor to drag.
• But once that expectational anchor began to drag, unions had reason to fear that inflation, once ignited, would persist.

• Lochs and rivers have been dragged by police divers, and mountain rescue teams have been called out to search the wild Argyll terrain for his body - but to no avail.

• Hasani said the drafting process of the statute dragged on for over a year because it did not suit the interests of the Rectorate.
• In fact, so laborious was the process that it dragged on for months and went way over budget.
• This process dragged on for over a year, while at the same time in the city, the gas and heating were cut off.

Synonyms

• There will be no sequel since it would unnecessarily be dragging the whole thing out and I don't have any ideas.
• Even if the sentence is reduced on appeal, he still seems certain to miss the competition as his lawyers and those of his club continue to drag the process out.
• Ben was quiet, he continued with his pizza slowly, dragging the process out just to watch her squirm.

Synonyms

• That friction-like drag slowed the moving cloud of atoms to a standstill, although each atom continued to move randomly near its place in the array.
• Any increase in surface area will increase skin friction drag.
• The presence of a longer disordered tag thus exerts a greater frictional drag, affecting the module tumbling in solution.

• Gains by both groups after encouraging figures from the company saw the FTSE shrug off the drag caused by weaker bank, pharmaceutical and telecom stocks.
• Larry mentioned this year that he almost always has to build the roof for the missions, which I guess is a drag because they are complicated.
• At present, they are more of an economic drag and a liability.

• It took yards of line off a hard-set drag, and it all but pulled me off my ledge.
• And any fish that can pull line off against ten pounds of drag is a fish that you ought to give line to anyway!

• In spite of that, a drag hunt has existed for many years and still exists today.
• The members remain free to assemble together for a mock chase, or a drag hunt or simply a communal ride.