Example sentences for: pushing

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

  • According to the SCMP , "[I]t is now time to break the deadlock by pushing forward with this humane proposal."

  • This means that all the issues that conservatives care most about--banning affirmative action, cutting taxes, pushing school choice--remain on indefinite hold.

  • But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.

  • "Here [in 1999] is a defeated, divided, demoralized Weimar Russia sitting there, and we are pushing it, with our NATO expansion, right into the arms of China, which bears tremendous resentment toward the West--and the United States in particular.

  • The stealth war news comes at a critical moment for the Pentagon, which is pushing for the production of a new-generation stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor.


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