True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden.
Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple= 25 =of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushesall to pieces.
Whatever crushesindividuality is despotism,= 30 =by whatever name it may be called.
Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others.
The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushesthat is full of grain.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
It is a shadow of hell, an evil vision, which strides along the waters, breasts the billows, crushes under its feet the tempest.
My destiny Precipitates itself and crushes you, Bound to its wheel!
She has a very affectionate nature, and gets tremendous crushes on the people she likes.
He in turn, raging over the plain, fells Pandarus with his spear and crushes AEneas, Priam's valiant kinsman, to his knees with a great stone.
I would call on men, and lift up my voice like a trumpet through the whole land, until I had gathered millions out of the North and the South, and they should crush slavery forever, as the ox crushes the spider underneath his feet.
This machine is not dissimilar to the one which crushes the ore with dry iron-shod stamps, but the heads of the wet stamps are larger by half than the heads of the others.
The torrents of sedition and discontent were converging to a river of revolt, that threatened to crush tyranny as an avalanche crushes a forest.
God crushes great nations to insure the inevitable evolution of His will.
The King will crush us as a falling rock crushes a scorpion.
The evil seems too great for him, and its vastness crushes him.
A stranger to all that is happening around him, he is left alone to fight with his conscience, which soon crushes him with all the weight of remorse.
As the hissing flight of shells hammers and crushes the gaping end of the cave with its thunderbolts, daylight streams in through the clefts.
Practice soon teaches you to preserve presence of mind, or, as I may be allowed to call it, discretion, and when you know exactly where your horse is, you can get away from him before he crushes you with the weight of his body.
The worst fall a man can get is to be thrown over his horse's head, with such violence as to lay him senseless till the animal, turning a somersault, crushes his prostrate body with all the weight of its own.
The sand verbena, the evening primrose, baby blue-eyes, and different kinds of lilies grow so thickly in places that every footstep crushes them.
It has grown from a very simple affair into the great mill which crushes hundreds of tons of ore in a day.
The pillar is reduced until it crushes and the operation is repeated.
The pillars between these sublevels are then cut away until the weight above crushes them down.
He crushes the elect for their profit,[1046] he crushes to powder the reprobate for their damnation.
It is the one word, the one thought that crushes me.
She crushes her napkin and flings it on the table.
Madly sensitive and conscious of his final superiority over a world that crushes him by its merely brutal advantages, he is goaded to self-destruction.
Feeble women throw him down: Margaret crushes his head with her feet, and Juliana beats him with her chain.
A tree crushes the enemies of Saint Martin; a dog lets loose a hare, and a great fire ceases to burn at his command.
And think ye that building shall endure, Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor?
Mjoiner (some people call it his club), which goes forth by itself to meet giants and crushes their heads.
In a tale of the Gaelic highlands the giant's life is in an egg which he keeps concealed in a distant place, and not until the hero finds and crushes the egg does the giant die.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crushes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
