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Example sentences for: thrust

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That is fine when it comes, say, to anatomy--in which Leonardo was also well-served by his willingness to thrust his nicely manicured hands into the guts of dead felons he was dissecting.
[When Violet and her sisters appeared] they thrust up on to their windows the heads and bodies of these lovely children, and managed to cast them inside amongst them.
But when seemingly hard facts about Clinton's past have thrust themselves upon the media, journalists have needed a different justification for turning them aside other than the 1960s doctrine that it was none of the public's business.
They thrust their fingers within an inch or two of priceless paintings, pointing out the obvious.
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.