pull away

verb

pulled away; pulling away; pulls away

intransitive verb

1
: to draw oneself back or away : withdraw
2
: to move off or ahead

Examples of pull away in a Sentence

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And when he’s actually pulled away and thrown into the back of a cab, Kilmer’s exit is as unceremonious as a cable yanked out from an amp, leaving viewers drifting along the film’s woozy currents. Beatrice Loayza, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025 Meanwhile, as a function of it pulling away from Earth, its disk size will have shrunk by nearly one-third. Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025 The clouds of high interest rates could pull away, allowing affordability to improve and the markets to march higher. Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2025 The Tigers trailed Creighton at halftime and led Michigan just 30-29 at the break before pulling away down the stretch of both of those games. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pull away

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1934, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of pull away was circa 1934

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“Pull away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pull%20away. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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