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Sentence Examples I picked up my books, shoving my papers back into the file, and walked out of the bathroom, acting as if nothing had happened. This encourages a lot of pushing, shoving and general disregard for other passengers. Before I could stop him, he was hurriedly picking up the clothes from the floor and shoving them in random drawers of the dresser. Clearing the counters of food items and shoving dishes into the sink, I ran a wet cloth over the various surfaces to remove crumbs and spills. When I return to the flat from my clinic I crouch down and the dogs crowd me, shoving and licking my face. All of this is just another example of fundies shoving their views of right and wrong on everyone else. Jurors ruled the officer acted illegally, recklessly, and dangerously in shoving Mr Jackson to the ground. Langley muttered darkly under her breath and shoving her hands in her pockets, started off towards the town. This extends into his professional life, where he works as an evictor, shoving notices anonymously under doors and scuttling away. Soon enough playful shoving escalated into an all-out war, which ended with Alex tackling Jamie to the floor. So, you know, while they're friends to a degree, they're probably not above shoving the other guy out of the way. She sent him a look of contempt before shoving past them and going out the front door. Clark gave him one last look before shoving past the other guys and jogging away. Bryce looked up and saw her, glared at her before walking out, shoving past her with his shoulders. Blue yanked her coat on, shoving past them and locking the door with fumbling fingers. If parents stopped shoving cars and money in bulk at their sloshed sons, Navalkar wouldn't have anything to write about in his weekly columns. Angelique pulled her arm loose of his grip, shoving past him to continue down the path. Well okay, the battery used to slip around a bit, but that was fixed by shoving a piece of folded paper into the back of it. I asked him innocently, mentally shoving down the pained expression that tried to break through. By the time the referee has sorted out all the pushing and shoving in the penalty box injury time is nearly over. Show More Sentences In soccer, particularly if the ref has given a penalty kick, the entire team will crowd around him, pushing, shoving and jostling him. The guards now took over, kicking and shoving him in the direction of the ablutions. It began with loud jibes and insults issued at both sides, and quickly developed into a shoving match. He's 22 next month and already they're shoving him up the aisle into wedlock. I remember your little friend shoving you into one before she because a pincushion, and you blasted me from there, you little whelp. On the corner, the two young men were already shoving the painter into a hospital van. A brief grapple ensued, pushing and shoving aplenty all round, and I duly broke free, uninjured and unrobbed. People were pushing and shoving each other at the end of the hall for better spots in the lines to use the bathrooms. But one, a muscular young man, was far from happy, yelling, angrily holding his arm, he began pushing and shoving me. Inhaling deeply Samantha started pushing and shoving people out of her way mercilessly. She kept pushing at his chest, shoving him closer and closer to the road as she yelled. When she was satisfied that he was preoccupied she pushed with all her strength, shoving Eric off her and onto the floor. Andy and I got into a bit of a row about something and began pushing and shoving one another. She spat at him angrily, shoving him roughly away from her, not wanting his friendly, compassionate touch. Prisoners were pushing and shoving each other trying to get a better view of what was going on. He dashed out of the building, shoving past anyone and anything, his only goal to reach home. I leap up, shoving my chair backwards, and point an accusing finger at him. Skipping her morning shower, she threw on some clothes and gathered her books, shoving them in her bag on her way downstairs. He looked over again and smiled before shoving them carelessly in his book bag. I settled for shoving my hands in my pockets and staring at the Ghiradelli shop I was standing across the street from. Show More Sentences I suddenly made up my mind, and with a few quick steps I was beside the boat, tossing in my buckets and shoving off. Following that moment of blithering mayhem, she had punched the car into drive after shoving the key mercilessly into its sheath. She keeps shoving pictures of him underneath my nose and talking about him all the time. I finish shoving my stuff into my locker and decide to go to the snack bar to grab something before class because I skipped breakfast. Having skied in such an ermine-lined resort, a return to the brutal shoving of Europe's lift lines could prove a bruising experience. There's a visceral pleasure in shoving the clutch, and unleashing the next wave of acceleration as part of a fluid mechanical process. Joe squealed, finally finding what he was looking for, shoving a square of milk chocolate into his mouth. He said there was pushing and shoving like a wheel slide as the train came to a standstill, and the brakes kicked into action. I climbed down the steps of my ladder after shoving my new diary under my mattress. He sticks the card back on the shelf, shoving it between the smiling clown figurine and the lighted seashell. You might encounter one shoving over a tree or stripping it of leaves and bark. I suddenly felt panic overwhelming me, shoving its way through my lack of emotion. In Bulgaria the cooks go crazy with this homely vegetable, shoving it on everything from salads and sandwiches to slices of pizza. He nearly choked on the toast that he was shoving down his throat, he was so nervous. He ripped off his shoes, shoving them in his belt, then pelted forward, knocking startled onlookers aside. Suddenly Zach came pelting through the hallway, shoving people out of the way until he accidentally ran into me, bowling me over. Her eyes widen in panic, and she strikes without warning, shoving him squarely against each shoulder and sending him sprawling backwards onto the rocks. People who criticize him never look at the big picture, he isn't shoving himself down our throats, the bookers, the writers, and other management are. Beth shouted over the roar, pushing and shoving her way through people. From moments of calm and almost stillness, there is a wonderful male glee in horsing around, pushing, shoving, improvising with arms, hands, positions and timing. Show More Sentences Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best. Landing hard she ignored the twinge that shot up her leg, stumbling past the daemon to the control platform and shoving the wheel around to fully open the floodgate. She ran and grabbed her book bag, shoving everything in quickly. I pulled them out of my bag and ate three, shoving the rest back. Lin rolled his eyes some, shoving his unsoiled hands into his pockets. Suddenly Burton appeared from nowhere by shoving Abbey out the way. Soon he was swinging chairs, shoving men, interposing himself into dancing couples. Pushing and shoving, and more than a few fisticuffs ensued for control of the three-tiered podium. Most fights involve hooking uppercuts or a cautious locking of horns or shoving head to head, ending when one animal signals submission and the winner lets him go. There was no pushing and shoving in front of the stands, thus allowing everyone to enjoy the outing and the titbits which were handed out! They were quickly able to make sense of how to use aikido for handling rough shoving tactics like what is seen in wrestling, sumo and at the beginning of many street fights. When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned. Three to four metres of space is needed around the water tank to reduce pushing and shoving. Passengers waiting on platforms do not wait for people to alight before they board trains, and so when the changeover occurs, pushing and shoving becomes the order of the day. If you get into a shoving match with the Americans on corn they will find a way to shove back. The area where I live, moreover, is dramatically mixed, bankers shoving up next to council tenants. In Au Bonheur des Dames, a wave of shoppers sweeps through a department store, shoving and consuming as they go. Unusually for an Indian cinema, you won't find the Regal surrounded by queues of young men pushing and shoving to get tickets. It includes a range of assaults, from pushing, shoving and grabbing to choking, burning and assaulting with a weapon. Both were familiar with the respective duties and did not discuss their plan of action before shoving the train into the spur. Show More Sentences In my local supermarket, I see harassed Italian mothers shoving packets of pre-washed salads into their shopping baskets as well as ready-made pizzas. A squeaking noise at the door made him look that way, swaying, and when he saw the woman shoving the wheelchair into the room he plopped back onto the edge of the bed. Barbara has memories of mischievous boys flicking bits of ink-soaked blotting paper at each other and shoving books down their trousers when they were to be caned. It doesn't do you any harm to listen to what people of other faiths think and having an assembly once a week is hardly shoving it down your throat. At lunchtime the next day as I sat in my room semi-happily munching on one of Steve's awesome calzone's and shoving books and magazines into packing boxes, my phone rang. Del got to her feet and pulled Keaton's sweatshirt on over her cami, shoving her hands into the pouch as she opened her door, deciding on a midnight snack. He executed the recovery process and, after receiving an automatic talker that this had been done successfully, initiated commands to continue shoving. Of the six disciplines that had been added to the Olympic Winter Games programme since Salt Lake City in 2002, the snowboard cross competitions provided the greatest spectacle with all the pushing, shoving and falling. But the Harper Conservatives insisted on shoving the law into the omnibus budget bill, making it a matter of confidence on which the government could fall. Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam. The trouble started early this morning when Pop was shoving his shirt and vest into his pants so he could cover his shame, as he puts it. In addition to shoving his own coin directly between the lines, a player may use his turn to knock his own coins into position. A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will. Namoco scolded the boy before shoving a 16 millimetre air hose up his behind and turning on the compressor valve. There is some pushing and shoving at times, but very rarely. If knocking on doors and shoving pamphlets through letterboxes were efficient ways to change minds, Britain would have a lot more Jehovah's Witnesses and a Labour government. The first type refers to acts such as shoving, pushing, grabbing or slapping acts that have a relatively low probability of causing serious physical pain or injury. The idea that landlords should be restrained from shoving rents through the roof regardless of their tenants' ability to pay them invariably gets Tories screaming about red dictatorships and the end of the world. Even Maria's dopey brother Kirk becomes violent and has to be held back from shoving a custard slice down Todd's cakehole by Anna in the cafe. On our other side, a Beats-obsessed young man suffered his fifth hour of logorrhea — begging for Nocturnalist's pillow in spontaneous bop when he wasn't writing us a disturbing poem and shoving it into our sleeping bag. Show More Sentences Harold considered himself a neat man, but neatness consisted of taking things that were cluttering the countertops and shoving them into the nearest available drawers. The interview is wrapping up and the camerawoman from MTV is still shoving the lens in everyone's face. He was going mental, shouting and swearing, trying to get the crowd going before shoving his hands down his keks. But, being British, we contented ourselves with chucking snowballs and shoving ice down each other's cozzies. We spent an hour this morning, Mr President, an hour, and we also did so in the last sitting, pushing and shoving each other out of the way for reasons which, personally, entirely escape me. Mr. Rob Anders: Mr. Speaker, this type of insidiousness, this type of evil of shoving out private sector money with public sector money expands beyond our borders. Such fragmentation of services often results in a situation where you as a customer ends up running from pillar to post and partners shoving the problem in someone elses shoes. In an Indo-China roiled by post-colonial disputes and the shoving of the great powers, he wanted a dignified neutrality, and spent his career struggling to achieve it. When I sought to exert my right as a parliamentarian to enter the building, I was physically prevented from doing so and a rather unedifying shoving and shouting match took place. Test results show that, within the sample, there is a wide variation in the locomotive engineers' opinion on their ability to ensure a sufficient hand brake has been generated by shoving stationary cars. Men of the Special Service, driving open, horse-drawn carts, shoved the sick on their stretchers onto the carts, next to and on top of each other, as though shoving so many coffins into a hearse. Have they-the Prime Minister included-forgotten that when they were talking about their wonderful open federalism, it meant not shoving things down the throat of a province that does not agree with their ideas? Not for basting, but for shoving leaflets through letter boxes. Examples from Classical Literature I froze on to the nearest daku and ran to the palisade, shoving him in front of me. The scalloper, wading in the shallow water, gathers the scallops from the flats by shoving the pusher among the eel grass. It grew every moment, became a mob, shoving and surging, shouting and jeering. So they stood, each with a foot placed at an angle as a brace, and both shoving with might and main, and glowering at each other with hate. I waded through the mud, shoving the skiff before me and yammering the chant of my manhood to the world. The pile of things completed, all three men laid hold of the truck and began shoving the ton-weight or so upon it after the puma. You certainly paid him back for shoving you into that snowbank. He never could come into the office, without ordering and shoving me about,' said Uriah. At any rate, I saw her shoving her shirt into the disposer chute. They said that sparked pushing and shoving that later saw police officers fire tear gas and birdshot. We bushwhacked through supposed-to-be maintained trails, shoving through blackberry brambles, forests of poison ivy, and clusters of that ever-present teasel. Find more words! 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