How to Use pull into in a Sentence

pull into

phrasal verb
  • Her hair was pulled into a messy bun on the top of her head.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • You kind of got pulled into the movie yourself in Belfast, Maine.
    — Mackenzie Farkus, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Sony gets pulled into the game Kuribayashi wasn’t ready to give up.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • With summer now in full bloom, the gloom-and-doom train is pulling into the station.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Denver to Reno The train pulls into Reno, Nevada, at about 9 a.m. the next day.
    — Nayanika Guha, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The barge pulled into Fells Point’s Henderson Wharf with the bodies of the drowned.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
  • She was pulled into the jet stream of talks and NPR cameos and consulting projects.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • He is soon pulled into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 June 2024
  • Rivers, 55, is tall and stocky, greying hair pulled into a long braid.
    — Serena Lin, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Saweetie's hair was pulled into a tight ponytail at the back of her head.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The fear bubble pops By the time Mae pulled into her driveway, the ether had lifted.
    — Dr. David P. Weber, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But don’t be pulled into the trap of thinking everything is up in the air these days.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Just as the homeowner fired a deputy pulled into the driveway.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • On the morning of May 26, a U-Haul truck pulled into the parking lot and backed into a space, as seen on video.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The car pulled into the bike lane to check traffic, a large hedge blocking the driver’s sightlines.
    — Bryan Mistele, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • This slowed it down enough to be pulled into the moon’s orbit about 57 miles above the lunar surface.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The following week, Jessie and Bobby pulled into the parking lot at the same time.
    — Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • If that is the case, butchery can be pulled into the 21st century by its apron strings.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In four separate cars, the five men pulled into the driveway of the four-bedroom, ranch-style home.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
  • San Juan Hills scored a 9-1 league victory to pull into a tie for first place with the Chargers.
    — Martin Henderson, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2025
  • As the car pulled into the driveway of the sorority house, light burst through the roommates' window.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The wind was blowing wildly by the time Verna pulled into the grocery store.
    — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • In verse one, the guy honors the motorcade by pulling into a Kwik Sak parking lot.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The tire changer came around the outside of Hocevar’s pit box and was clipped as Berry pulled into his stall.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The bus pulled into the narrow parking lot on a sunny but cold morning.
    — The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The group pulled into a shallow bay and saw a different bull running in the distance.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But, as the bus pulled into the campus, Sanders saw a group of white classmates waiting in the parking lot, staring at them.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • On the latter, Linkin Park pulls into sole possession of the sixth-most top 10s in the chart’s 35-year history.
    — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Betts scored 20 points in the first three quarters, helping the Bruins pull into a tie heading into the fourth.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Once reserved for those with active disease, the territory will soon include millions pulled into it by risk scores alone.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025

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