The Captain tugged at the hem of her tunic constantly, trying to pull out wrinkles that weren't there.

All of the story's tension, it seems, resides in those ropes the sailors are constantly tugging.

"It constantly tugs at you," he said, explaining that he took a cut of about $20,000 in pay and benefits when he joined United.

The possibility of Barrett being right increased the more time passed, but still.... She tugged at his thoughts constantly.

Young children who constantly tugs at their mother's arm in the supermarket are not trying to be bad.

The neutrally buoyant cable floated weightlessly through the water, but ocean currents tugged at it constantly.

Wells tugged at his jersey constantly, fidgeting throughout, coming to bat for the first time in the third inning.

I'm constantly tugging at the hem of my shell.

Her need of Gareth Davis constantly tugged at her and would no longer be denied.

This is because Government policy makers are constantly tugging at the economy in ways that tend to counter excesses, pulling actual results back toward the consensus.