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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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  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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Peter Amelio:

    They’ll bump a car in traffic, make it appear like an accident – and then when you pull over, they’ll carjack you, if a situation like that happens and you’re bumped in traffic and you don’t trust it, know where the nearest police station is and drive there.

  4. Jennifer Andresen:

    I had to pull over. My pulse was racing. I was so nauseous I thought I would throw up, my mother and grandmother were like,' What is wrong with you ?'.

  5. Linda Albi:

    She gets up way early so she can call on our time zone, and I've been on the way to daycare and I have to pull over and get in the back seat so he can talk to her. When she calls me, I drop everything.


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