HAUL in a Sentence

Learn HAUL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

63 example sentences for HAUL, such as:

1. The car was hauled out of the river.
2. She hauled her backpack onto her back.
3. She hauled her large box into the room.
4. Our camp is only a short haul from here.
5. He tried to haul the huge companies into court.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAUL
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haul
 v.  draw slowly or heavily; pull or drag forcibly; shift direction
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  And so, take it all around, we made a good haul.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
2  "Le's make up the deffisit," and he begun to haul out yaller-boys out of his pocket.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
3  "Blest if the old Nonesuch ain't a heppin us out agin," and he begun to haul out yaller-jackets and stack them up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
4  I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX.
5  She could reach a flitch of bacon or haul a tub of oil with one sweep of her arm in the shop.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
6  At the next haul the weight was not heavy, and it was discovered that they had only secured a coil of the rope detached from the bucket.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
7  These burglars made a considerable haul at Sydenham a fortnight ago.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
8  In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  But to haul the boat up to his flank was impossible, he swam so fast and furious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
10  Jake said he might as well take the wagon and haul to market the pig he had been fattening.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
11  That was a good haul, he said, better than average.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  Should luck be on your side, you may win the devil knows what a haul.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
13  Each of them expresses his opinion as to how and where to haul it.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
14  They haul the log away, and it happens that this is done as one of them said.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
15  Then indeed the Teucrians set to work, and haul down their tall ships all along the shore.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  He tried to haul the huge companies into court.
2  One neighbor, who usually uses the truck to haul away lawn debris, always returns the truck in meticulous condition.
3  So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
4  Our ship was able to haul up just before it hit the submerged reef.
5  Our camp is only a short haul from here.
6  It was a long haul doing the degree part - time, but it was worth it.
7  He told the chief officer to haul the ship off four points.
8  I hauled upon his hand and made him off the cliff.
9  He reached down and hauled Liz up onto the wall.
10  She hauled her large box into the room.
11  The car was hauled out of the river.
12  The police have hauled Peter before the court on a charge of dangerous driving.
13  He was hauled before the managing director and fired.
14  After a long drive we finally hauled into town at dusk.
15  She hauled her backpack onto her back.