How to Use pull at in a Sentence

pull at

phrasal verb

• What Might Go Wrong The plug could be pulled at any second.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 9 May 2023
• This one was more comfortable [with] less pull at the bust.
  — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2023
• With your own duvet, there's no reason to pull at and steal the other.
  — Halee Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
• The coyote keeps biting and pulling at the fawn while the doe spins around kicking and stomping at it.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• But when his father raised the rifle to shoot, the boy had pulled at his arm, trying to stop him, and the shot missed the deer’s heart.
  — Kate Dicamillo, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• No more having to bend over to pull at pesky roots thanks to the clawed weeder’s 39-inch handle.
  — Gabriela Izquierdo, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2023
• The agent is seen roughly pulling at the dog's leash, at times yanking hard enough that the dog's front paws are lifted from the floor.
  — Miriam Marini, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• The boy is laughing and pulling at balloons that line the hotel's entrance.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 7 June 2024
• The proud dad later pulled at his daughter's hat and leaned in again, playing with Zhuri.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• But it was pulled at the last minute with no explanation.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
• Sergei Bobrovsky was pulled at the same time Fleury left, allowing four goals on 15 shots.
  — Colby Guy, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
• Keep in mind that this hitch is effective when the load is pulled at a right angle to the attachment point.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
• The seal pulls at one of the octopus’s arms before surfacing to catch its breath.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• Rescuers managed to pull at least 104 survivors out of the water.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 June 2023
• Glass: Glass massagers are easy to clean and have a low chance of pulling at or irritating your skin.
  — Isabella Ubaldi, Health, 20 Mar. 2024
• In one corner, a muscular white-and-brown mutt pulled at a chain leash, baring sharp teeth.
  — Jorge C. Carrasco, New York Times, 30 May 2024
• The first is to test your dog's skin elasticity: gently pull at the skin behind your dog's neck.
  — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
• That vibe has pulled at least one celebrity — John Mayer, who moved into the fifth-floor duplex in 2005.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2023
• Giannuzzi, who didn’t look good on any of the three goals, was pulled at this point, having to go to the bench ending his game and career.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
• Whatever pulls at your heartstrings, give it your best shot.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• One woman, a sweatshirt tied around her waist, pulled at the retractable leash of her German shepherd.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• These codes won’t be around forever and are often pulled at short notice.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• In imagining the scene, Graves writes that the grieving widow, Livia, had hidden an eagle in a cage at the top of the pyre, to be freed by a string pulled at the right moment.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Non-verbal cues, like grunting to poop or pulling at their diaper.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 23 June 2023
• Even before someone set fire to a child’s gravestone in a historic Black cemetery in Georgetown, that slab of stone pulled at strangers.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• This paddle brush is big enough to detangle your whole head in just a few swipes, without breaking off your ends or pulling at your scalp.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 27 June 2023
• The Islamic Republic has in many ways accelerated the very trends that pulled at the seams of the monarchy.
  — Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
• Video of the skirmish, where the far-right protesters pushed and pulled at each other, quickly spread across social media.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 20 Nov. 2023
• And Musk, for all the distractions pulling at him, is committed to making the company a success.
  — Jeran Wittenstein, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• Hicks, who hasn’t completed five innings in his last two starts, was then pulled at 72 pitches, tied for the fewest he’s thrown in an outing this season.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024