[Vocabulary] pulling away?

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nininaz

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Hello,
Excuse me, do you have the time?
M: It’s 10:15.
W: Oh no! The last city bus stopped running at 10:00. How am I
going to get back to my dorm? I don’t like to walk in the dark.
M: Why don’t you just use the campus shuttle bus?
W: Is there a shuttle bus stop around here?
M: There’s one right over there. A bus should be coming soon.
They run every 15 minutes, and I saw a bus pulling away about
ten minutes ago.
W: That’s great! Does the shuttle have just one route?

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/pull_1
Do you think the following definition should be correct?
20stop a vehicle[intransitive and transitive] to drive a vehicle somewhere and stop; to stop somewhere
pull something into/towards/down etc something
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She pulled the car into a side street.





 

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Check the phrasal verb definitions here.
 

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Check the phrasal verb definitions here.

Thanks.
Sorry, There was something wrong in my Internet connection, so the thread was duplicated.
Undertanding thefreedictionary.com is difficult for me.
Could you please answer by my own source? thanks alot
 

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Not a teacher nor a native speaker.

pull away

1.
To move away or backward; withdraw: The limousine pulled away from the curb.
2. To move ahead: The horse pulled away and took the lead in the race.



 

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Could you please answer by my own source? Thanks a_lot.

Scroll further down in your own source to 'pull away' (phrasal verb 1).
 

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Or to save looking for it on the page, go Ctrl-F, and add "pull away" in the search box. That will save you from having to read the whole page. There's 3 entries.
 

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Scroll further down in your own source to 'pull away' (phrasal verb 1).
Do you think the following definition is correct as well?
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/pull
a [no object], of a car, train, etc.:to move from or to a particular place
  • The car pulled out of the driveway.
  • The train pulled into the station [=arrived at the station] right on time.
  • I made it to the bus stop just when the bus was pullingaway/out. [=was leaving]
 

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Those examples work for me.
 
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