tug

He kept tugging on her blankets to get her attention and would not stop.

"They don't remember a world where Simply doesn’t exist, and it’s the juice they’ve seen in the fridge throughout their lives, so it has a particular tug on their heartstrings."

Dugoni, 38, said he began imagining “device-free” environments where people could get away from the “tug and pull of modern life.”

Martin lacks sufficient hair to have literally tugged his forelock in Trump’s presence, but his position as supplicant — or itinerant entertainer, an Irish tradition if ever there was one — was obvious to all.

In the rarely seen “Man at His Bath,” the tug assumes a culturally determined tension around male nudity.