pull away
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To move ahead.
Example Sentences
- "Schumacher is beginning to pull away from the rest of the racers."
- "San Francisco is a city built on hills that look, to the driver of an ailing vintage VW, like they go straight up endlessly. At the beginning of our trip my sother couldn't pull away from a light if the car was on the slightest backward incline."
- "As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net."
- "She pulled away from me when I approached her."
- "We used to be close, but Paul has been pulling away from me for years."
- "My 7-year-old son pulled away from my lover when she picked him up. He was upset. He said he loves her but he's afraid because he knows when he gets home Daddy is going to ask him if he touched us and if he says 'yes' he's going to get a spanking."