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Example sentences for: thrust

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At least among non-cyberheads, the computer-screen problem seems to be everyone's favorite conversational thrust with regard to SLATE.
Critics say this film is pretty fun for a formula sports flick: "brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek plays a second-string quarterback thrust into the spotlight of a football-obsessed Texas town when the star is injured.
Here is the split mind of a Henry James heroine, raised in this hemisphere with excessive propriety and then thrust, unprotected, into old and indecipherable European traditions.
The broad thrust of their appeal calls for the setting up of a new agency, most commonly referred to as a ‘European Research Council’.
The anticolonial thrust appears in the assertion of the Americans’ equal claim to rule by “consent of the governed.”