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How to use the word drags in a Sentence?

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The current weakness in loan demand is partly structural, reflecting a loss of confidence in the housing market and the uncertainty caused by recurrent disruptions from China's zero Covid strategy, these are drags that can't be easily solved by monetary policy.

Julian Evans-Pritchard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He will go, the question is when and in what manner, and I sincerely hope he goes in a dignified fashion, goes now, rather than drags this out, which isn't in his interest, isn't in the interests of the party we both serve and certainly isn't in the interest of the country.

Andrew Murrison

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I can’t say I’d live there because the winter drags on, but I could live there in the summer. It’s a beautiful state.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Michigan is very scenic, i can’t say I’d live there because the winter drags on, but I could definitely live there in the summer. It’s a beautiful state.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Michigan is very scenic, i can’t say I’d live there because the winter drags on, but I could live there in the summer. It’s a beautiful state.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

And the current trend increases the likelihood that President Russian President Vladimir Putin will turn to more drastic means, including imposing martial law, reorienting industrial production, or potentially escalatory military actions to free up the resources needed to achieve Russian President Vladimir Putin objectives as the conflict drags on, or if Russian President Vladimir Putin perceives The Russians is losing in Ukraine.

Avril Haines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're all tired, it's hard on everyone. We all hope the exams can be done earlier, the sooner the better. It tires everyone out if it drags on.

Li Yongjun

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If this drags on to September, October, November, December, we'll have fighters that have not boxed this year, the fighters at the top end are going to be fine but the fighters coming through, small hall fighters, ones starting their careers or those who do not have a sponsorship deal face big concerns.

Eddie Hearn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If it drags on for weeks or months we'll need more reinforcements.

Luigi Viale

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The China-U.S. trade war and the Hong Kong protest are combining to cast a negative pall on Asian markets today, hong Kong protests have been dragging on for a while and the view from the financial world is that it's really starting to bite now. The further this drags on it's certainly going to be very negative.

James McGlew

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The mind is a rascal monkey, Always jumping from thought to thought. It makes us fear the future, And drags us to a past that we forgot.

AiR Atman in Ravi

added by AIR
4 years ago

If a highly motivated person drags her mother and her husband and her second cousin twice removed to the polls, then it makes a difference.

Kurt Meyer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Declare a personal resolution that you are going to stop complaining about things since it drags you down and you are trying to change your focus.

Marie McIntyre

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If he drags it, we are prepared to go in for the long haul because we have lost our respect for him.

William Duma

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If he does the honorable thing and resigns it'll be over and we will have a new leader, if he drags it, we are prepared to go in for the long haul because we have lost our respect for him.

William Duma

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

when life drags you down , there is a reason .Fight for your dreams and keep looking forward .try to keep it clean !

life

added by zaid_ta
5 years ago

For Donald Trump, it's quite necessary to seize the opportunity and reach a deal [ with China ], donald Trump could lose votes [ in the next election ] if the trade war drags on.

Ren Xiao

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If it drags on, it's a huge inconvenience for Los Angeles voters, it makes a steep climb even steeper. He's got a lot of people he's got to leapfrog.

Ben Tulchin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is nothing individual consumers can do to protect themselves beyond pressing Alex Berezow and Congress to get The FDA food safety workers back on the job with the pay they deserve, the FDA acknowledge that as risks go, this isn't that bad but as it drags on the worse the impact will be.

Sarah Sorscher

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If this drags on, I could see a mediator getting involved, you know, perhaps, facilitated by the government, which is what normally happens in typical strike situations, but this is something the airline can solve.

Seth Kaplan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Certainly the longer it drags out, the market is bound to see some pressure, at least in some sectors and with certain companies.

Tim Ghriskey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The worst that can happen is that this case drags on and that it slows the development of lithium.

Baldo Prokurica

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Every day that drags on we have less and less money to put into the program.

Greg Gac

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

He drags me and I elbow him in the ribs, from there he slammed me on the floor and ran.

Flor Solache

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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