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Example sentences for: propel

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Did these defeats irreparably harm our credibility and propel would-be aggressors to believe that the United States would never fight?
According to Stephen Sondheim, Jonathan Larson had managed to do what so many Broadway writers had tried and failed for years to do: He'd used the language of rock to propel a theater piece.
Desperate people who have lost all hope for themselves are biologically driven to propel possibly surviving offspring into the next generation.
The incident was initially viewed as a triumph for Chernomyrdin--until the terrorists, now Chechen national heroes, used the incident to propel themselves to power.
We claim nostalgia for 19 th -century moral standards and propel the Book of Virtues to the top of the best-seller list.