Examples of dragger in a Sentence
we quickly left the draggers behind and sprinted up the hill
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These draggers also tossed more than 48,000 chum salmon overboard in 2024, along with 4.5 million pounds of halibut, 3 million pounds of herring, and one killer whale, according to NOAA.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2025
Do the foot draggers in the legislature not know or understand the present and future risk?
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
Over the past week Germany, the perennial foot-dragger, has done what the U.S. has spent decades politely asking it to do: begin to disconnect its energy sector from the Russian grid and commit to spending seriously on its own defense.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
For better or worse, Hill is too much of a gentleman to call me a knuckle-dragger.
—Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
But for now, even a blind knuckle-dragger can do a hearing.
—Kristin Wilson and Paul Leblanc, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
Take the Cowboys’ scoring drive just before the half, when Dalton found Gallup on a 19-yard toe-dragger down the left sideline … and then on a back-shoulder fade in the left corner of the end zone to take a 20-17 lead into halftime.
—Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2020
So, if your foot-dragger is, say, a phone-hating introvert with pandemic anxiety, then the call to the pediatrician isn't the thing to delegate.
—The Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2025
Do the foot draggers in the legislature not know or understand the present and future risk?
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
Over the past week Germany, the perennial foot-dragger, has done what the U.S. has spent decades politely asking it to do: begin to disconnect its energy sector from the Russian grid and commit to spending seriously on its own defense.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
For better or worse, Hill is too much of a gentleman to call me a knuckle-dragger.
—Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
But for now, even a blind knuckle-dragger can do a hearing.
—Kristin Wilson and Paul Leblanc, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
Take the Cowboys’ scoring drive just before the half, when Dalton found Gallup on a 19-yard toe-dragger down the left sideline … and then on a back-shoulder fade in the left corner of the end zone to take a 20-17 lead into halftime.
—Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2020
So, if your foot-dragger is, say, a phone-hating introvert with pandemic anxiety, then the call to the pediatrician isn't the thing to delegate.
—The Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
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“Dragger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dragger. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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dragger
noun
drag·ger
ˈdra-gər 
: one that drags
especially
: a fishing boat using a trawl or dragnet
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