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pull over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pull oververb

    steer a vehicle to the side of the road

    "The car pulled over when the ambulance approached at high speed"

Wiktionary

  1. pull oververb

    (intransitive) (in a vehicle) To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder).

  2. pull oververb

    To cause to pull over

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  1. pull over

    To pull over is a phrase often used in driving context. It refers to the act of moving a vehicle to the side of the road and bringing it to a halt, often for reasons such as law enforcement instruction, vehicle malfunction, or to yield to an emergency vehicle. It can also be used to mean temporarily stopping what one is doing. In another context, 'pull over' could also refer to a type of clothing, like a sweater, which is put on by being pulled over one's head.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pull over in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pull over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pull over in a Sentence

  1. Kenneth Stuck:

    The Army casualty office called me and told me that ‘we have your brother,’ i had to pull over and call my son to tell him to come get me because my car was flooded -- with my tears.

  2. Jonathan Arthur:

    You do everything right, you slow down, you submit to the authority of law enforcement, you do the right thing, you wait until a well-lit place to pull over you're on a dark road -- you don't want anybody to get hurt -- and then Daniel Crocker turn around and repay your courtesy with this.

  3. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:

    American Immigration Council also strongly increases the risk of unconstitutional racial profiling by calling on Texas DPS to pull over any vehicle that they have reasonable suspicion is transporting migrants, american Immigration Council could severely disrupt the Biden administration's effort to create a public and private partnership to ensure migrants released by government custody are not simply dropped off at the bus station with no idea where to go.

  4. Police Chief Heath Landry:

    Zak Evans ' said Creola Police said the high rate of speed, and the fact that the car did not immediately pull over, led to Zak Evans' arrest. BABY ON BOARD : AIRLINE CREW DELIVERS BABY GIRL MID-FLIGHT Zak Evans ' was taken to jail while Zak Evans ' wife was taken by ambulance to Cabrini Hospital. From my understanding, Zak Evans ' was very irate, threatening to get everyone if Zak Evans ' missed Zak Evans ' wife's pregnancy.

  5. Dan Sorajja:

    This duration usually gives people enough time to pull over and avoid an accident, there are a subset of people who have no warning prior to losing consciousness, and these persons may be at increased risk of accidents.


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