How to use tow in a sentence

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• When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass.From the entry turnout
• Thanks for driving out here and towing me out of the ditch. You're a superhero!From the entry superhero
• The ship ran aground and had to be towed back out to sea.From the entry run aground
• He spent extra for a V8 because he doubted that a straight-six would be enough for towing his trailer.From the entry V8
• She arrived a bit late, her ever-present briefcase in tow.From the entry ever-present
• Tow is flax with short staple.From the entry staple
• The misparked vehicle was towed away.From the entry misparked
• In the tow ring, a girl was walking a blanketed horse.2013, John Dunning, Looking for Ginger North. From the entry tow ring
• The next Monday afternoon Daryl hooked his wheelie bin onto the ute′s tow bar.2012, John Bryant, Great Australian Ute Stories, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page. From the entry wheelie bin
• Horses were easily startled and might bolt off the tow path or into the canal itself.2012, John H. White, Jr., Wet Britches and Muddy Boots, page 171. From the entry runaway
• Or would it be too embarrassing to walk the streets with a gabbling dwarfin tow?2012, Walter Moers, translated by John Brownjohn, “All in Gothic”, in The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books (A Novel from Zamonia; 6), New York…. From the entry dwarfin
• You can tow your caravan to Brighton or Bournemouth or Bognor.2009, Chris Cleave, Incendiary, unnumbered page. From the entry caravan
• Here's hoping they get married and spend their days swimming in the sun, merkids in tow.2009, "Q&A with Aimee Friedman", in Aimee Friedman, Ocean of Secrets, Scholastic Children's Books (2012), unnumbered page. From the entry merkid
• Rachel bubbled her thanks and brushed past the Reverend, me in tow.2008, Douglas Allen Rhodes, Sex and Murder, page 55. From the entry bubble
• Road trains are over 50 m long when towing three trailers.2007, Dick Eussen, Australia's Savannah Way: Cairns to Broome, page 23. From the entry bulldust
• Hackling separates the long line linen fibers from the shorter tow linen fibers.2007, Karla J. Nielson, Interior Textiles: Fabrics, Application, and Historic Style, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry tow linen
• Get rid of the grockle box's and a the pikey mutha farker's who tow them.2003 July 3, Groid, “OT - Caravan owners”, in : uk.radio.amateur (Usenet). From the entry grockle box
• You're not just buying and selling with a wizard and a scholar in tow.1999 January 7, Juliet E. McKenna, The Thief's Gamble (Tales of Einarinn), Orbit, →ISBN, →OL. From the entry wall-crawler
• This method has been used for long ocean tows by tugs with a single-drum winch.1989, John S. Blank, Modern Towing, page 302. From the entry underrunner
• However, the whole float-out is controlled by a towmaster, who directs and controls all towing operations.1978, Mark Williams, No cure, no pay: the story of salvage at sea, page 169. From the entry towmaster
• This is where we are scheduled to cut loose from our tow.1976 [1975], Kuno Knöbl, translated by Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber, Tai Ki: To the Point of No Return, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN…. From the entry Kao-hsiung
• Each large vessel was accompanied by three smaller ones to tow it in calm weather.1975, Lucile McDonald, The Arab Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124. From the entry Tsinkiang
• The Apex boat is a small radio-controlled craft which tows, at an angle, two Drone boats.1946, Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, Report of Operations, volume 1, page 73. From the entry drone
• For example, toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line.[1946 April, George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, in Cyril Connolly, editor, Horizon, volume 13, number 76, London…. From the entry tow the line
• He had scanty discouraged hair the color of tow, and a sickly, unpleasant breath.1944, Katherine Anne Porter, “The Leaning Tower”, in The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 173. From the entry sickly
• This isn't the first time this week where Cheney has slammed Republicans for towing the line for Trump.2024 February 6, Brad Reed, “'Inexcusable betrayal': Liz Cheney buries her party for following 'Trump's orders'”, in MSN, archived from…. From the entry tow the line
• The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft.2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 20:43 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04…. From the entry stricken
• With his wheelie bin in tow Daryl set off.2012, John Bryant, Great Australian Ute Stories, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page. From the entry wheelie bin
• Throughout his toddlerhood Charlie dragged it along like Linus in Peanuts; towed it through muddy farmyards and chewing-gummy streets.2012, Charity Norman, After the Fall, London: Allen & Unwin, published 2013, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry chewing-gummy
• Then with an impertinent presumption she came running out the front door with the maid moving in tow.2005, William Mueller, Rome Revisited, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry in tow
• She knew every tow ever to pass by her house, and told me stories of pollywogging when she was a girl.2001, Matthew Mohlke, “Quad Cities” (chapter 7), in Floating Down the Country, Red Wing, Minn.: Lone Oak Press, Ltd., →ISBN, page 91. From the entry pollywog
• In the morning the police sharpsters hacked their way through my screen door with machetes, two hysterical tourons in tow.1998, Mark Richard, “Fun at the Beach”, in Charity: Stories, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubeday, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry touron
• In the country, a bare-handed beekeeper will pay you to collect the colony with the queen in tow.1996, Abbie Zabar, A Growing Gardener, New York, N.Y.: Universe Publishing, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry roachy
• She walked across the tow path to the neat green wicket gate and stepped through into the tiny garden.1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur. From the entry wicket gate
• Far down the field a C-47 cargo plane with two loaded gliders in tow began to move slowly up the runway.1944 December 10, “Freight Carriers, Gliders and Hospital Planes Take Part in Preview of Air Borne Unit's Show”, in Milwaukee Journal…. From the entry in tow
• The electric-powered tow car is lowered to the tracks at either side of the tank, completely straddling it when in operation.1941, Hearst Magazines, Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 85. From the entry supertorpedo
• The semi-monocoque construction provided higher strength with less weight, the aerodynamic shape required less horsepower to pull (improving gas mileage) and it provided smoother towing.2013, Tara Cox, Airstream: The Silver RV, →ISBN. From the entry semi-monocoque

Meaning of tow

1. verb To pull something behind one, such as by using a line, chain, or tongue.
2. verb To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
3. noun The act of towing and the condition of being towed.

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Questions about tow in a sentence

How do you use tow in a sentence?

Tow is used as a verb and noun. For example: “It isn't the car's battery; I think I need a tow.”

What is a short sentence with tow?

“The misparked vehicle was towed away.”

What does tow mean?

Tow means to pull something behind one, such as by using a line, chain, or tongue.