7 sentences with 'dragged'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dragged and other words derived from it.
• « The war dragged on for years, with Charles XII dying fighting a rebellion in Norway in 1718, leaving no heir. »
• « The struggle dragged on for a decade as more European powers drew closer. Finally, with France teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and Louis himself old and infirm, the powers agreed to negotiate. »
• « The war against the foreign coalition, which had grown to include Russia and the Ottoman Empire, dragged on relentlessly even as France's economic situation worsened. »
• « In 1917, as the war dragged on and the German military leadership under Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg recognised that the nation could not sustain the war much longer, German generals decided to use their new submarines, the U-Boats, to attack any ship suspected of carrying military supplies to the British or the French. »
• « The French public sympathised with the students at first, especially since it was well known that French schools and universities were highly authoritarian and often unjust, but as the strikes and occupations dragged on, public opinion turned away from the uprisings. »
• « Gretchen and a friend of hers, Julie Janecky, drove up from Crookston and suddenly arrived at my dorm, where they dragged me off to dance. »
• « The force of the turbulence was so great that Ogden's arms seemed to come off; he felt like he was being dragged behind the captain. "Help me!" he shouted, but the roar of the air muffled his voice and co-pilot Atchison was too busy trying to control the aircraft. »