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Example sentences for: thrust

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One of the guests, by legend Lady Katherine Douglas, thrust her arm through the staples where the bar should have been, and temporarily kept the door shut.
How are we supposed to read a story containing a one-line disclaimer that contradicts its entire narrative thrust?
Fame was thrust upon him, and he didn't like it much.
The Wall Street Journal 's lead feature focuses on a group of single mothers in a Maryland housing project who have been thrust by welfare reform into the workplace for the very first time.
9 The thrust toward inclusion of more and more groups within the inner circle of the equally privileged has been one of the central themes of American life.