dragger

Examples of dragger in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Becket Adams writing for the Washington Examiner, Dec. 30: NBC News’ Chuck Todd offered a good reminder this weekend that many in the press view people of faith as regressive knuckle-draggers. WSJ, 30 Dec. 2019 No knuckle-draggers, no chowder; not even any annoying pop music blaring from Pylon speakers. Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018

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“Dragger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dragger. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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