Crossword-Solution: PULL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pull | v. t. | To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. |
| Pull | v. t. | To draw apart; to tear; to rend. |
| Pull | v. t. | To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. |
| Pull | v. t. | To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. |
| Pull | v. t. | To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. |
| Pull | v. t. | To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. |
| Pull | v. t. | To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. |
| Pull | v. i. | To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope. |
| Pull | n. | The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one. |
| Pull | n. | A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. |
| Pull | n. | A pluck; loss or violence suffered. |
| Pull | n. | A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull. |
| Pull | n. | The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. |
| Pull | n. | The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. |
| Pull | n. | Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull. |
| Pull | n. | A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. |
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Sentences with PULL (5)
The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs.
This was said to fortify one effectually against the cold, and they smacked their lips after each pull at the flask.
This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide; it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited.
Today, some posting software rejects articles containing too high a proportion of lines beginning with `>' -- but this too has led to undesirable workarounds, such as the deliberate inclusion of zero-content filler lines which aren't quoted and thus pull the message below the rejection threshold.
Jenny Smiley’ll let me have hers.” The boys were to pull Thea to school on their sled, as the snow was deep.
Quotes with PULL (3)
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held. He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!” I yelled back. But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again. See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 176 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).