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Example sentences for: crush

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In his clueless search for companionship, Marcus gets a crush on Ellie, a troublemaking older woman (she's 14) obsessed with the pessimistic lyrics of Kurt Cobain.
The cover story claims mass killings in Kosovo were part of a systematic Serb effort to crush the Kosovo Liberation Army and rid Kosovo of Albanians.
Then he strode through the press crush, knowing it would part for him.
(NATO planes crush Milosevic, Milosevic drives out refugees, refugees give NATO fits.)
In other cases, neurons on crush sites showed minimal neurite outgrowth (Fig.