How to Use pull away in a Sentence

pull away

verb

• The Royals scored twice in the fifth and four times in the sixth and pulled away from the A’s.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2024
• The Hogs outscored the Tigers 18-8 over a six-minute stretch in the second half to pull away.
  — Jackson Fuller, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024
• The couple each reel hard while the rod bows over with the force of the fish pulling away.
  — Irene Wright The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 3 July 2023
• Or one of the legs was pulled away and the leg bones were dropped away from the skeleton.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 July 2024
• At this point, gums will start to pull away from the teeth and some bone will be lost.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2023
• Then, after playing to a 9-9 tie in the third game, the twins pulled away.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
• The mugger moves in, wrenching the cash out of Alex’s hand as the boy tries to pull away, the video shows.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
• During this time, the gums start to pull away (recede) from the teeth.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 3 July 2024
• The deputy held onto Caleb’s left arm, Caleb screamed and pulled away.
  — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024
• What the divers can’t pull away by hand is cut with scissors.
  — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• In the second game, the Highlanders won 74-52, pulling away in the second half.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2024
• As the dirt was pulled away from the mountain’s slope, edges of stone began to emerge.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• The tamale should be able to easily pull away from the husk once cooked.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2023
• In the final stanza, the Spurs seemed ready to pull away as DeRozan got hot.
  — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• That figures to be the script in this matchup, with the Falcons pulling away in the second half.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• In a game neither team led by more than five points, the Bears couldn’t pull away.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 3 Mar. 2023
• The women pulled away and a white Cadillac took their place.
  — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• This is causing my spouse to pull away from them even more.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022
• Starting with those six unanswered points, the Heat closed the game on an 11-2 run to pull away.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• No bus pulled away to reveal the extreme home makeover.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• But Jacksonville’s defense will take over, and the Jaguars can run it enough to pull away.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• As soon as the weather warms, pull away mulch to allow new shoots to pop up.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Trojans finally pulled away with a 14-4 streak at the end of the third quarter.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• A lot of times, Bryan would try to pull away my description.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• Chastain pulled away to the outside of the track after the two had been running door to door.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
• Bake until the top is golden brown and firm to the touch and the cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan, 45 to 55 minutes.
  — SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• The boat ever-so-smoothly pulls away from the dock and the music gives way to a man’s voice on the P.A. system.
  — Reed Parsell, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• The two were side-by-side into Turn 1, and Hamlin pulled away and won the two-lap shootout at his home track.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2024
• That upswing in trading came as the polls showed Trump pulling away from Harris in what had otherwise been a tight race, based on polling data.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
• No team this season has held the top spot for more consecutive weeks than Oregon, which pulled away from Maryland over the weekend to improve to 10-0 and is a unanimous No. 1 for the second straight week.
  — Eric Olson, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024