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pull over
verb
- intr (of a motor vehicle, driver, etc) to halt at the side of the road
- tr (of a police officer) to instruct (the driver of a motor vehicle) to halt at the side of the road
Idioms and Phrases
Bring a vehicle to the side of the road; also, instruct a motorist to stop. For example, We pulled over to ask a passerby for directions , or The state trooper pulled the speeding motorist over . [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
The pursuit began shortly after the suspect refused to pull over for officers.
鈥淵ou cannot be pulled over and grabbed on the street because of the color of your skin. Border Patrol is going to be held accountable for those practices and for violating people鈥檚 rights.鈥
At the end of the video, the ambulances are seen having pulled over on the roadside.
Got pulled over going 62 miles an hour, not a soul on the highway.
Stirling, a Laguna Niguel resident, was pulled over Thursday night for a traffic violation on his motorcycle, the Newport Beach Police Department said in a news release.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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