pull into

phrasal verb

pulled into; pulling into; pulls into

1

of a car, train, etc. : to arrive at a particular place

The train pulled into the station right on time.

2

: to move a vehicle to (a particular place)

He pulled into the parking space.

He slowly pulled the car into traffic.

Examples of pull into in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But the stakes get a little higher when both characters are told that NASA can’t afford to lose to the Russians and are pulled into a plot to stage a fake landing in case the actual launch doesn’t go as planned. —Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024

But both the Wisconsin and Minnesota towns resisted this pull into the 2000s. —TIME, 2 Apr. 2024

In a different Alabama city, her musical and blood sister Lydia Slagle pulls into another church parking lot. —Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2024

Scientists found that as much as 65 tons of small fish and other sea life were killed every year when they were pulled into the cooling system’s 18-foot-wide underwater intakes. —Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024

When one former Oxford professor dies, her five most promising students reunite at her funeral and are soon pulled into the implausible goings-on. —Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024

The confrontation that preceded the shooting involved the 36-year-old man who wound up being shot and the 32-year-old, whom the older man was harassing as the northbound A train pulled into Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Downtown Brooklyn around 4:45 p.m., the police said. —Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024

One theory is that the magnetic field gradually weakens over time as the cloud is gradually pulled into the stellar core. —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024

When a car pulls into a rural village there is no concealing it and Uwimana had no time to collect his thoughts. —Jonathan M. Hansen, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024