Example sentences for: shove

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

  • David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.

  • Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.

  • You better not try to stand in my way as I'm walkin' out the door Take this job and shove itI ain't workin' here no more.

  • If there's anything suspicious about the move, the stick will kill the dice [stop the dice while they are rolling] and shove them to the boxman.

  • Men collide, blow themselves in half with their own mishandled grenades, stab themselves frantically with morphine needles, shove cigarettes up their noses to keep the stench of the dying and the dead at bay.


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