hug
Example Sentences
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Nearly one year after the Eaton fire incinerated their block in west Altadena, neighbors gathered again, greeting one another with hugs that spoke to a bond forged by shared loss.
From Los Angeles Times
"I don't know who she was but she literally hugged her for the whole ten minutes of shooting."
From BBC
There are spats and hugs, frolics and bonding, and not much thrust to the tale.
From Los Angeles Times
And Erin was there, and she was in our hug too.
From Los Angeles Times
She bought lollipops and a teddy bear, and by 10 a.m. she had set up shop outside a campus dining hall where she consoled students Sunday morning with offers of “free mom hugs.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.