The gnawing pangs of hunger made me mingle with the shoving, jostling throng, and hurry from kitchen to kitchen till I had accumulated nine chapattis, and vegetables in proportion.
It was a Friday morning, when thousands of the hillmen come in to the weekly fair, and the bazaars are full of a shouting, jostling throng, the murmur of which reaches even the schoolroom.
There was a window with a lot of pictures in it, and a crowd of Chinamen werejostling each other to see them.
The arrival of our ship awakens the Yellow City early in the morning, and, before our boats are lowered, the shore is white with crowds of Curacaoans, big and little, pushing and jostling each other for a sight of us.
Most naturally we join the procession, now in the street, with the cabs and carriers of all sorts of things, and now jostling in among the people on the narrow sidewalk of the shady side.
Just looking at them, during that blank moment before everything became a confusion of jostling assistance.
He, sheering off to the other side of the road to escape her intimate and jostling shoulder, was thinking of the expenses of another household, and making no effort whatever to amuse her.
Do you see yon great and promiscuous crowd jostling against one another and surging round the rostrum and forum?
Passing along the road in custody of the sheriff, and seeing the people who were eager for the execution crowding and jostling one another past him, he at last called out, 'Boys!
Sometimes a sleepy passenger, hunched up on a plush seat, would swear at him forjostling a protruding foot, and once a drearily crying baby, propped against a fat and sleeping mother, clutched with dirty fingers at his coat.
There was a crowd of them about his feet, their rimpling, iridescent necks and soft gray bosoms pushing and jostlingagainst one another, and their pink feet actually touching his boots.
In a moment the open river was full of logs jostling eagerly onward.
The saw-dust street was filled with screaming, jostling men.
Freight and baggage tumbled over the decks, passengers hurrying on board, carts, hacks and omnibuses rudely jostling one against another, runners loudly vociferating for their respective boats, etc.
The couples were jostling and slanging each other vociferously.
The road to-day was literally thronged with a legion of black humanity so exasperatingly bold that nothing short of the stick could keep them from jostling me.
The khanji waved his hand over the seething, jostling mass of men and animals.
The pack-mules go doggedly on in front, jostling one another with their unwieldy loads.
He is down upon the pavement; and the crowd eagerly gather round him: each new comer, jostling and struggling with the others to catch a glimpse.
The jostling grew regular, almost methodical, and by and by an officer came down the road carrying a lantern, and spoke with Henderson for a moment.
A terrible murmur filled the night--the more terrible because, while the few words spoken near me were idle and jocular, it ran down the jostling crowd into endless darkness, gathering menace as it went.
I have lived in the midst of its eager, jostling life until I have seemed to be a cell of its multitudinous being.
There was some confusion and jostling as we halted on the brow of the hill, while two men were despatched ahead to announce the governor's arrival, and Bure, with half a dozen spears, rode out as an advanced guard.
Great jostling then arose from the press of folk in the Burgundian land.
None might guard him there against the jostling and the dust.
They became more and more aggressive, jostling me, and making one or two attempts to snatch the fish from my hand.
But just as I was in the middle of my first trick, there was a commotion on the outskirts of the crowd, people jostling and shoving, pushing and being pushed, and a moment or two later four burly nigger minstrels burst through to where I was.
She noticed that while Emerson maintained a flow of conversation his eyes were constantly upon the fellow's back, and that he kept a position close to his shoulder, regardless of jostlingfrom the others.
Involuntarily the watchman drew back, whereupon the unwelcome visitor crowded past, jostling his inhospitable host roughly, laughing the while, although in his laughter there rang a dangerous metallic note.
All heads were turned, all conversation was interrupted; there was a grand rush for the door, a pushing and jostling like that of the crowds on the quay at a seaport, to watch the arrival of a felucca with a cargo of gold.
If some stanch hound, with his authentic voice, Avow the recent trail, the jostling tribe Attend his call, then with one mutual cry The welcome news confirm, and echoing hills Repeat the pleasing tale.
Jostling in close array; then more diffuse Obliquely wheel, while from their opening mouths The vollied thunder breaks.
Colonel Stuart sprang between them, blades clashed, and they were swept apart in another wave ofjostling combat.
Joe hastened out but slackened his pace to lag behind the crowd of idlers who were jostling the prisoners along with hoots and jeers.
By this time the children who had escorted the sisters ran back, jostling each other and laughing.
The promenaders strolled on, crowding and jostling each other; they were flaunting their gaiety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jostling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ajar; clashing; conflicting; confused; grating; harsh; hustle; jangling; jarring; warring
