HUG in a Sentence

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For HUG, below is one of 66 sentences:
When you need to tell, I am here;When you need a warm hug,I will be here;When you need someone to wipe your tears of sadness,I will here.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUG
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hug
 v.  hold someone close to your body with your arms, usually with fondness
 v.  stay very close to something or someone
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  Give him my lovingest hug that ever was, and kiss yourself a dozen times for your.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
2  But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
3  Amy spoke earnestly, and Jo said, with a cordial hug, "I understand now what you mean, and I'll never laugh at you again."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
4  Fortunately the child was moved to hug her, so she managed to hide her face an instant, hoping the Professor did not see it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
5  She kissed me gently: I was all flour making the Christmas cake, and it would not have done to give me a hug; and then she looked round for Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  It would make them sometimes hug, and sometimes tear one another; they would howl, and grin, and chatter, and reel, and tumble, and then fall asleep in the mud.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
7  I gave her a hug to take away the turn, or to give her another turn in the right direction, and then stood before her, looking at her in anxious inquiry.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
8  His account of himself was so far attended with an agreeable result, that it led to his withdrawing his hand in order that he might have another hug of himself under the chin.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
9  In the silence that ensued, my aunt walked gravely up to Mr. Dick, without at all hurrying herself, and gave him a hug and a sounding kiss.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
10  She wanted to catch him by the shoulders and hug him to her, make him realize that she was flesh and blood and not something he had read or dreamed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
12  Suddenly the beast extended its arms, or rather legs, and inclosed him in a grasp that might have vied with the far-famed power of the "bear's hug" itself.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
13  He flung off his cloak and turned to his father, with a face so bright and boyish, that the latter gave him another hug.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with their great trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  And then, India and Honey had hugged him, fairly tearing him from Melanie's arms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  A heavy car with a low center of gravity will hug the road.
2  A hug distance is exactly right for me when thoughts freeze.
3  When you need to tell, I am here;When you need a warm hug,I will be here;When you need someone to wipe your tears of sadness,I will here.
4  A silent hug means a thousand words to the unhappy heart.
5  The judge said he could hug her for her words; so he cried, and his wife cried again.
6  Our hosts greeted us at the airport with a cordial welcome and a hearty hug.
7  The judge said he could hug him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she cried again; pap said he'd been a man that had always been misunderstood before, and the judge said he believed it.
8  He hugged a large box of chocolate against his body.
9  She had hugged him exuberantly and invited him to dinner the next day.
10  Shaerl trudged toward them, hugging a large box.
11  I can't ever recall Dad hugging me.
12  As much as hearing you sing, seeing you smile and feeling your hugs, this realization is a lovely gift from a lovely woman.