Kanji Detail for 拉 - "to crush, to pull, to drag"

Sentences including 拉

• メアリーは海賊に拉致された。

  Mary was kidnapped by pirates.

• 輸送中に箱が拉げて中身がとび出した。

  The box was crushed during transport and the contents flew out.

• 彼は四人の警官によって深夜拉致された。

  He was spirited away by four police officers in the middle of the night.

• 彼女はタトエバ星から来た宇宙人に拉致された。

  She was abducted by aliens from the planet Tatoeba.

• 今日のトピックは「北朝鮮による日本人拉致問題」です。

  Today's topic is "the problem of Japanese people abducted by North Korea".

• 北朝鮮が６か国協議の合意に基づき核開発計画を申告した２６日、米国が「テロ支援国」の指定解除手続きに入ったことで、拉致被害者の家族らには「拉致問題が置き去りにされるのでは」という不安が広がった。

  With North Korea's announcement on the 26th of its nuclear development plan based upon the agreement stemming from the Six Party Talks, and the United States' commencement of procedures to remove North Korea from its designation on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, the families of abductees have expressed growing unease that it may constitute an abandonment of the abductee issue.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

• 依撒伯拉何々の墓だの、神僕ロギンの墓だのという傍に、一切衆生悉有仏生と書いた塔婆などが建ててあった。

  from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha