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Example sentences for: shove

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The young man whirled around, and that's when Egland gave him a shove.
Leading the war caucus are Brit Hume and Catherine Crier (both on Fox News Sunday ), who predict that when push comes to shove Congress will support the troops, and Tony Blankley (CNN's Late Edition ) and Bill Kristol ( This Week ), who sense public support for a drawn-out ground war.
According to Justice Anthony Kennedy, it's a place where people "practice newly learned vulgarities, erupt with anger, tease and embarrass each other, share offensive notes, flirt, push and shove in the halls, grab and offend."
To simplify Lemann's supple narrative a bit: He decries the existence of the educated elite, but when push comes to shove he seems more a creature of that elite than an opponent or a detached cultural observer.
Jujitsu's few-holds-barred grappling is far more effective when push comes to shove (and worse) than standing arts such as karate.