lug in

Example Sentences

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The hub of derby activity is a small wooden shack here where fishermen and fisherwomen from across the island lug in their catch in coolers at 8 in the morning and 8 at night.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2012

If on my next publication they should praise me, and so lug in Endymion, I will address them in a manner they will not at all relish.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

"What reason, then, could you have for your extraordinary conduct in trying, against all rule, to lug in here your mere ungrounded conjectures, to prejudice the court and spectators against an innocent man?"

From Gaut Gurley by Thompson, D. P.

I ask you, as I don't want to lug in any of the other people at Roper's.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

There are six shifts of sail, the main being substituted for the fore lug in turn as the weather increases, in a manner similar to that in which our own Mounts Bay boats reduce canvas.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various