I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drag queen
drag race
drag your feet (= walk slowly in an unwilling way )
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I was dragging my feet because I didn’t want to get there.
main drag
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the restaurants that line the main drag
pull on/drag on/draw on a cigarette (= smoke a cigarette with deep breaths )
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Ed was leaning out of the window and dragging on a cigarette.
pull/drag/haul yourself into a position
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She pulled herself into a sitting position.
was dragged kicking and screaming
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The London Stock Exchange was dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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Ahead of them was a scraping sound as of something being dragged along the ground.
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Legal proceedings against Papon began in 1982 and have dragged along since.
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Mr Wakenshaw's parachute became tangled in the wheels of a plane and he was dragged along its fuselage.
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Simon glanced at him and then back at his own feet, dragging along in his torn sneakers.
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Children, boys and girls, were loading small carts to be dragged along by old horses.
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Brown refused to talk about it as the season dragged along into a painful exercise for both him and his team.
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Male speaker I was dragged along a sandbank, but it was still good.
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They've got the lot, dragged along by singer Patrick, a John Lydon sneer-a-like in an Oxfam suit.
away
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Sometimes a person would arrive just as the divan on which he had been sleeping was dragged away .
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The women and children would have been dragged away from the men.
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Furious fans then hurled bottles and cans at the madman as he was dragged away .
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He started wailing and crying and pulling at the corpses and had to be dragged away .
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Seconds after Andrews had dragged away the pilot, the plane exploded, and was reduced to a smouldering wreck.
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All the women with-out children had been dragged away .
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Those too drunk to stand were dragged away to their tents and caravans.
back
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For a moment, until the old men had been dragged back to the barricade, all was chaos.
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And then what a cheat, to be dragged back to daylight!
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On his command the sheets were dragged back .
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Three were dragged back on to the train and taken by the scruff of the neck from station to police car.
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I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately.
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I get the feeling Rufus has been dragged back out of bed.
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She dragged back the covers and stared.
down
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You're too fine a soldier to be dragged down .
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The slump in Intel dragged down other tech stocks.
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This means that if they fight alongside other troops their vulnerability will drag down your overall combat result score.
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Alice was, to his way of thinking, a fat, discarded hippie, dragged down by two monstrous happy-face earrings.
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Sometimes I was dragged down from our bed-sitter under the tiles.
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London shares dropped sharply, dragged down by steep declines on Wall Street Tuesday and in early dealings yesterday.
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I was dragged down the hard, concrete steps on to the pavement.
off
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Half-finished knitting dragged off its needles and wrapped in its knitting pattern.
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After the crowd has thinned, after the little girls have been dragged off by their parents, Jess walks upstairs.
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Lily turned to the mirror and dragged off her hat.
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As soon as the members of the party were sighted, they were dragged off to jail in Monterey.
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Seven-year-old leukaemia sufferer Paul Hindle was dragged off his pride and joy when the gang pounced as he played with his pals.
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Slowly, with some satisfaction, she peeled off her hand-knitted gloves and dragged off her sensible hat.
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An hour later, Lindsey walked out of the theatre, dragging off her mask and gloves.
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I won't even miss Bustos, which the Agent dragged off months ago.
on
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But things could just as well drag on , with the army trying to turn the situation to its advantage.
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Mainly, it drags on and on...
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They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference.
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So the campaign drags on to the next election.
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The Governor Eyre controversy dragged on for a number of years, creating deep divisions within respectable society.
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Our election protest also drags on through the Labor Department and the courts.
out
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And they still drag out those photographs I took of the splashes and use them to illustrate lectures on bloodstains.
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At any rate, the protests could drag out the proceedings.
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The police were dragging out the screens from their van, ready to enclose the scene of crime.
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Even the tarpon were biting, and he dragged out a seventy-pounder.
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They did and I was dragged out and thrown on to the grass.
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The Kissinger-Le Duc Tho talks were dragged out and terribly complex.
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I remember not being able to stand outside a phone kiosk any longer and dragging out a man who was obviously gossiping therein.
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Their lawyers held up proceedings with a flood of objections that dragged out the hearing for 17 months.
■ NOUN
bed
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Liz dragged her out of bed and stood over her while she got dressed.
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Once you have dragged yourself from your bed , go into the bright sunshine as soon as possible.
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She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs.
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Two-thirty in the afternoon and she had dragged him out of bed ?
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Being dragged from the bed , along the landing, me sobbing and screaming too.
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I have to drag myself out of bed each day, and I can't get up the energy to do any housework.
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I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before.
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It wasn't just that she'd dragged Anna out of bed in the middle of the night and into the dark.
body
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They've just dragged the body of a coachman out of the canal too.
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Two men scuttled across and dragged the bodies from the gun.
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Scathach dragged the stiff body back into the trees and laid it on its side.
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In other footage a lorry was dragging a body behind it.
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Byrne dragged Stephen's body to a relatively unscathed section while Hunt went in search of help.
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She thought of Yevdoxia, his wife, dragging his decayed body and bruised mind around.
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Then she dragged the body to the workbench and pushed it into the cupboard, head first.
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Watchmen were dragging bodies out of the room downstairs.
chair
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As we pass one café, the waiters race out to drag tables and chairs inside.
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Ellen dragged a chair over next to him.
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Dexter dragged over a chair and sat down at the desk.
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He did it now, dragged his chair out under the leafy fig tree, beyond the glow of the porch light.
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Gilly dragged a heavy stuffed chair backward to the shelf and climbed up on the very top of its back.
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He walks into the kitchen and drags a chair back into the living room.
court
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But then he was dragged into court , slapped with huge fines.
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He had said he would drag her through every court in the land, which sounded unpleasantly threatening.
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They could have put their foot down and dragged us into court .
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What is clear is that those who are being dragged through the courts can not afford to pay.
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Not if I have to drag her through every court in the land ... Nick closed the parlour door.
door
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She saw the weight he had to exert to drag the door open.
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Marie screamed as she lunged, trying to drag him to the door .
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The old witch dragged the door open and crawled out into the rain.
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Regaining the companionway, he dragged the doors closed, bolting them.
ground
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Ahead of them was a scraping sound as of something being dragged along the ground .
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Her long skirt dragged on the ground and her tangled hair fell around Janir as she hunched over him.
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He apparently had been dragged along the ground by a car.
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The unlocked handcuffs dangling from his wrist dragged along the ground as he was lifted into the wagon.
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Since the poles dragged on the ground behind horses during moves, they quickly wore down.
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Yet it reminded her of the leg he dragged along the ground .
heel
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The council was informed about the anniversary two years ago but has dragged its heels over putting it on any agenda.
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Too easy to fall off and be dragged around by the heel .
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On this occasion, their leaders have dragged their heels at every stage, without giving any of the ideas a chance.
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Coming back I was exhausted, dragging my heels through a four-inch snow.
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The truth could be that they are dragging their heels in processing these requests which makes it appear that way.
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Presidential spokesman Park Joon-young denied that the government was dragging its heels .
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They went up the track with Piper dragging his heels like a recalcitrant child.
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No doubt we can drag our heels pretty effectively if we really try.
safety
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His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety .
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His pal, also six, helped drag him to safety .
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He seized the demented man round the shoulders and began to drag him back to safety .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drag sb's name through the mire
haul/rake/drag sb over the coals
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
the main drag
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Eventually he turned off the main drag into the sidestreets and from there it was only minutes before he reached Hesper Mews.
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He turns off the main drag.
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He went south toward Calle Ocho, the main drag of Little Havana.
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Our hotel, the four-star Elea Beach, stands off the main drag at the end of a quiet lane.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As the months drag by, you find out who your real friends are.
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As time dragged on, I gradually got worse.
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Mom dragged us to a Barry Manilow concert last night.
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Mumphrey dragged her up a flight of stairs and beat her repeatedly.
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One of the firemen went back in and dragged my husband out through the flames.
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Pick up your chairs, children. Don't drag them along the floor.
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The day dragged on, and there was still no sign of Jake.
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The last two hours of the play really dragged.
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Why do physics lessons always seem to drag ?
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You can delete the files by dragging them into your "trash" folder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alexei dragged his coat off what remained of the lantern pole.
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And then what a cheat, to be dragged back to daylight!
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Grouse are dragged in as the hungry lynx turn to them when their main item of diet disappears.
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It was like trying to drag a sled with a pile of bricks on it.
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She loved it down there so much, we just about had to drag her out of the water.
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So the campaign drags on to the next election.
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That's better than letting it drag and drag; you lose a lot of the vibe that way.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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He lit a Woodbine, took a deep drag and stared about him.
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Instead he lit it with a deep satisfying drag .
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Some one passed her a fresh joint and she took a deep drag , feeling the smoke burn her throat.
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Brenda took a deep drag on the cigarette and went back to finish her talk.
long
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I lit up with trembling fingers. Long drag .
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Taking a long drag on his bamboo pipe, Soo-Il would think about the request for a bit.
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Ben Nevis was a long drag .
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And all you can do is - I took another long drag at the Capstan, and inspected my trembling hand.
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He lit a cigarette, took a long drag .
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He took a long drag on the cigarette and looked at his watch again.
main
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Eventually he turned off the main drag into the sidestreets and from there it was only minutes before he reached Hesper Mews.
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He turns off the main drag .
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Our hotel, the four-star Elea Beach, stands off the main drag at the end of a quiet lane.
■ VERB
take
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He lit a Woodbine, took a deep drag and stared about him.
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At times when he took a drag on his cigarette, one caught a gleam of sorrow in his features.
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Then both took a drag on their cigarettes.
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She studied her face again, watching herself take a drag of her cigarette.
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He sat at the desk, his head hanging forward on his chest, taking quick drags on his cigarette.
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I took a huge drag on my cigarette and realized that I had smoked almost the whole thing.
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The sergeant took a languid drag at his cigarette.
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George and Russell took off like a drag race.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drag sb's name through the mire
the main drag
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Eventually he turned off the main drag into the sidestreets and from there it was only minutes before he reached Hesper Mews.
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He turns off the main drag.
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He went south toward Calle Ocho, the main drag of Little Havana.
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Our hotel, the four-star Elea Beach, stands off the main drag at the end of a quiet lane.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The car's low profile and rounded edges reduce its drag .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He did a remarkably accurate imitation of the soft, low drag of a rapidly disappearing device.
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Here Susskind Eikhl winked at Bella and took a drag on his cigarette.
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Kevin tried another drag at the cigarette.
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The resultant drag could topple the plane from the sky.