Synonyms of pulling in

pulling in

verb

present participle of pull in

1

as in containing

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)

a company that cannot manage to pull in costs will not be in business for very long

Synonyms & Similar Words

• containing
• controlling
• regulating
• keeping
• curbing
• restraining
• measuring
• reining (in)
• checking
• suppressing
• stifling
• taming
• governing
• holding
• choking (back)
• ruling
• holding back
• inhibiting
• constraining
• bottling (up)
• stopping
• bridling
• swallowing
• interrupting
• repressing
• smothering
• strangling
• blocking
• impeding
• arresting
• sinking
• hindering
• hampering
• mincing
• obstructing
• silencing
• squelching
• muffling
• pocketing
• handcuffing
• gagging
• muzzling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• taking out
• loosening
• liberating
• expressing
• venting
• airing
• unleashing
• loosing

2

as in arresting

to take or keep under one's control by authority of law

he was pulled in after a random traffic stop turned up drugs in his car

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arresting
• running in
• seizing
• grabbing
• picking up
• apprehending
• restraining
• detaining
• snapping (up)
• locking (up)
• pinching
• capturing
• committing
• nailing
• nicking
• snatching
• busting
• nabbing
• catching
• collaring
• jailing
• trapping
• grappling
• incarcerating
• imprisoning
• confining
• hooking
• snaring
• landing
• binding
• bagging
• holding
• getting
• immuring
• interning
• manacling
• handcuffing
• remanding
• shackling
• rearresting
• jugging
• fettering
• trammeling
• enchaining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• discharging
• releasing
• springing
• freeing
• loosening
• liberating
• loosing
• emancipating
• unbinding
• unchaining

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pulling in

Examples might be offering a customer a free round of drinks on their 10th visit or pulling in local sports fans by running a watch party on game day. — Diana Olick, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026

More collaborations could follow if interest holds, and each one tends to widen the audience by pulling in shoppers loyal to the collaborator rather than to Plasticana itself. — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Nov. 2026

But before Datlof’s home was done, in 1978, federal prosecutors had charged the two men with dealing in highly addictive amphetamines, pulling in around 145,000 customers in four years, according to reports on the charges. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2026

Candidates spent the weekend crisscrossing their states and pulling in surrogates to make a final push for voters still on the fence. — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

The film even spawned a three-film franchise, with the entire trilogy eventually pulling in over one billion dollars in box office bucks. — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2026

What could be next Expect the recurrent-UTI playbook to shift over the next 18 to 24 months, not because guidelines are being rewritten tomorrow, but because the research and the patient demand are both pulling in the same direction. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2026

Extreme weather events, such as drought or heavy rainfall, also stress trees and can trigger them to rapidly protect themselves by more rapidly pulling in the chlorophyll from their leaves, dulling fall colors. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026

Then someone decides what the right answer is, usually pulling in product or legal, before it gets written, approved, built into something teachable and scheduled into a session competing with everything else on the calendar. — Snehal Nimje, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026