to pull
- verb
- /pʊl/
- The movie's compelling storyline pulls the audience into its emotional depths.
- pull the strings
- pull in different directions
- push and pull
You don't allow the world to pull you so fast that you forget.
- You don't allow the world to pull you so fast that you forget.
- So my heart was pulled to the city.
- Like there is a kind of force that pulls you back.
Examples
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We need someone who can sing, someone with a voice that pulls the emotion from the listener.
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It occurs because a vision will pull you forward.
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So my heart was pulled to the city.
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The whole force is pulling for you, man.
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I'm gonna need your help to pull me up.
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I became curious and could not pull my eyes away from the newspaper.
Academic text (1999) -
Regardless of one's decision, the experience included feelings of being pulled in two directions.
Academic text (2015) -
Such connections drive business and innovation and pull us from the sidelines to the mainstream.
Academic text (2011) -
Leaders often have multiple agendas and multiple constituencies that pull in different directions.
Academic text (2017) -
Her charisma and charm really pull people toward her in conversations.
Synonyms
Make people notice or want something
Attract people or attention to something
To get someone to do something by offering a reward or making false promises
To draw someone strongly into a situation, often against their wish
Attract people or attention
To attract people or attention
Antonyms
Idioms
Make your situation better by working hard without help
- Informal
Find a surprising way to solve a problem at the last moment
Save someone from a difficult situation at the last moment
- Offensive
Make up ideas quickly without preparing or checking facts
To promise help again and again and then take it away at the last moment
To suddenly stop helping someone, leaving them in a difficult situation
- Literature
To mention being a woman or man to avoid blame and get sympathy
To succeed and then stop others from getting the same chances
- Archaic
To tell a story in a way that makes what happened sound bigger or not true
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Get control of your feelings and calm down after being upset
To survive a serious illness or danger, often with help from others, and start to get better
- Literature
To take a short line from a text and show it separately to get attention
Compounds
- Specialized
A rise in general prices caused by higher production costs like wages and raw materials
- Specialized
A rise in prices when people want to buy more things than before
How Attractive
- US
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pull originally meant 'to draw' from old English pullen, so to pull people toward you means to attract or draw them in by your power or appeal.