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Example sentences for "jostled"

Lexicographically close words:
jos; joshed; joshing; josses; jostle; jostles; jostling; jot; jota; jots
  1. It was an accident that you jostled against me.

  2. At any rate, just as Langridge came opposite to Tom on the stairs, the former pitcher was jostled against his rival.

  3. It became known that the basement door at the foot of a little steep flight of stairs was the one to be opened, and they jostled and heaved in this direction like labouring fiends.

  4. The Mexicans jostled in the light of the torch, their eyes blinking and glittering.

  5. Meanwhile the torrent jostled her, swung her this and that way.

  6. They jostled each other defiantly, and almost every one blazed out at three or four of the others.

  7. Silent-footed coolies drifted past, sullen-faced negroes jostled him, stately Martinique women stalked through the confusion with queenly dignity.

  8. Vaughan tipped his hat over his face, and the villains who pressed upon the two and jostled them, and whose cries of "Burn him out!

  9. In the act he jostled a person who was approaching to accost him.

  10. Newsboys with their sheets, tipsy ward-leaders, and gossiping merchants jostled one another.

  11. For that which threatened him every day jostled aside for the present that which must happen one day.

  12. I am sorry to have jostled you a little; but, on my word of honor, it was the fault of your partners; they didn't know how to hold you.

  13. Here and there clumps of stunted hollies jostled each other, their whisperings making the evening seem doubly gray and dreary.

  14. My Lord of Pembroke jostled the mock churchman aside and faced Barbara.

  15. And not only did the Dusky Men come flockmeal toward the Bent of the Bowmen, but also they jostled along toward the road that led southward.

  16. The best and the worst jostled each other on the dusty and unsightly streets with their shacks and tents and saloons and dance halls.

  17. In the French language, no lapse of time, no succession of ages had taken place; the stained and superb style of the de Goncourts and the gamy style of Verlaine and Mallarme jostled in Paris, living in the same period, epoch and century.

  18. Such was his haste that he even took flight before the designated time, for he wished to shun the present moment, wished to find himself jostled and shouldered in the hubbub of crowded streets and railway stations.

  19. They jostled you on sidewalks without begging pardon.

  20. Perpetually going up and coming down the Corso, people scrutinised and jostled one another.

  21. And the road, too, became peopled: the chariots thundered, the armies tramped along, the people of Rome jostled him with the feverish agitation of great communities.

  22. Shadowy figures jostled him as he pushed his way through.

  23. The people around Daoud jostled and craned their necks toward the sound of the screams.

  24. Romans jostled the horses David and Sophia rode, but they gave Scipio plenty of room.

  25. I love you," I said in an undertone, as we jostled closer on the pavement.

  26. Skirts, books, boots, underclothing, an inkpot even, jostled one another in dangerous proximity.

  27. Accustomed to their small flats off Shaftesbury Avenue, where tiny kitchens jostled with bedroom and boudoir, they were frightened by the suggestion of a vast basement out of which floated the savoury aroma of the John Dory baking.

  28. The crowd increased every moment and just then, a camel bearing a load of wood jostled the trooper on the other side and he turned to ward it off from him, lest it should tear his clothes.

  29. Suttung was so close upon him, however, that he jostled Odin even as he was filling the last dish, and some of the mead was spilled about in every direction over the world.

  30. As in the days before, the march of Trade and caravan of Pleasure jostled each other in the Gate's mouth.

  31. In no sort of order all these reflections elbowed and jostled one another before my mind's eye, which was itself searching feverishly for a solution.

  32. We are deafened and jostled and perplexed.

  33. People sprang, it seemed, from nowhere, and jostled about Prothero, so that he became a peripheral figure in the discussion.

  34. One of them made as though to box her ears, but Lorchen's lover seized him by the scruff of the neck and they jostled each other and were on the point of coming to blows.

  35. Surrounding all the station precinct ran a weather-warped and blackened fence, ten feet high, along the top of which screamed and jostled fully two score women and girls, offering for sale every species of ware from cucumbers to turkeys.

  36. Hidalgos with the right to conceal their premature baldness from Alfonso himself shudder not in the least at being jostled by beggars; nay, even exchange with them at times a few words of banter.

  37. From within sounded the splashing of water, the tittering of jostled damsels, or the shouting for passage of one who had resigned his post and must run the gauntlet to freedom through a vociferous raillery.

  38. None had interfered with us so far, though many had jostled us as I clambered over the ruins; but this forbearance could not be reckoned upon for long.

  39. Twenty times we were jostled by others hastening to the attack, either from hunger for fight, or from appetite for what they could steal.

  40. The streets were packed, the commerce of man jostled and threaded along the highways; there was life and action, hope, ambition.

  41. An unusually heavy roll caught him slightly off-balance and jostled him against the detective.

  42. On either side the guards were drawn up eight deep, holding back the multitude that pressed and jostled with the insistence of curiosity.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jostled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.