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

Reasonably sure that tomorrow would lug in new brands of trouble to pester a boy with, the Wildcat steered his somnolent mentality clear of the shoals of surmise and let tomorrow take care of itself.

From Lady Luck by Wiley, Hugh

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

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

Danton had helped lug in the Revolution, but when he touched a match to the hay he did not really mean to start a conflagration, only a bonfire.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert