Words similar to pushing

Example sentences for: pushing

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

I then told him that earlier in the day I had spent seven minutes pushing buttons in order to make a single airline reservation.
In a land where politeness is important, per favore (please), grazie (thank you), prego (don’t mention it), and, when pushing through a bus or market, permesso (excuse me) will be greatly appreciated.
At a time when kids influenced by hip-hop culture were buying jeans with legs as wide around as their waists, Levi's was still pushing its classic straight-leg look.
He was coyly gleeful about how lucky we are to toil in this chaos: to see the early snowdrops pushing up from the snow year after year or some flower graciously volunteering where you never would have been clever enough to plant it; or just to watch a couple of dragonflies having sex on a hot summer day.
"Why can't it be Vice President Al Gore pushing Bill Bradley, and Bill Bradley pushing Al Gore to be the best we can be?"