Example sentences for: pushed

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

  • In 1983 Wuhan was flooded in spite of monumental preparations for the worst, and the great floods of 1998 (the worst in 54 years) again pushed Wuhan to the brink.

  • Within the first few days after Bush's inauguration, Clarke approached Rice in an effort to get her-and the new President-to give terrorism very high priority and to act on the agenda that he had pushed during the last few months of the previous administration.

  • Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.

  • The rules, which were pushed by pro-lifers, require doctors to complete a 10-point checklist detailing why the patient wants an abortion, list the patient's method of payment, and record the total number of abortions they perform.

  • Throughout the 1920s and '30s, the central government in Belgrade pushed Albanians out of the region and moved Serbs in--efforts the Albanian majority resisted, often to their peril.


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