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.

  • Jujitsu's few-holds-barred grappling is far more effective when push comes to shove (and worse) than standing arts such as karate.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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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