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.

  • And according to the New York Times lead, the electoral shove has come to putsch, as various Republican House members maneuver to topple Newt Gingrich.

  • The young man whirled around, and that's when Egland gave him a shove.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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