Example sentences for: pushed

How can you use “pushed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of how, when tea was done, and everyone had stood,He reached for my head, put his hands over it,And gently pulled me to his chest, which smelledOf dung smoke and cinnamon and mutton grease.I could hear his wheezy breathing now, like the prophet's Last whispered word repeated by the faithful.Then he prayed for what no one had time to translate--His son interrupted the old man to tell him a groupOf snake charmers sought his blessing, and a blind thief.The saint pushed me away, took one long look,Then straightened my collar and nodded me toward the door.

  • The call from Ong was received initially by Vanessa Minter and then taken over by Winston Sadler; realizing the urgency of the situation, he pushed an emergency button that simultaneously initiated a tape recording of the call and sent an alarm notifying Nydia Gonzalez, a supervisor, to pick up on the line.

  • On the way home, as Culturebox pushed past the Day of the Locust­- like throng lining 42nd Street and the uniformed New York City policemen troublingly acting as Disney's bouncers, there was the towering new entertainment complex that is Times Square, with all the other theme restaurants and studio stores and the latest soon-to-open tourist attractions, such as the Broadway theater that offers neither plays nor musicals but brief medleys of each and Disney-owned ABC's new studio for Good Morning America .

  • White House spokesman Mike McCurry said that 1) "it's not a disease, it is something that is part of defining one's sexuality"; 2) Lott's remarks show that Republican leaders in Congress are "backward"; and 3) the Christian right has pushed these leaders to "the extreme."

  • The mentally ill man who pushed her evidently chose her at random.


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