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Example sentences for "press"

Lexicographically close words:
presidio; presidios; preso; presphenoid; presque; presse; pressed; presser; pressers; presses
  1. Am not I connected with the Press I'd like to know?

  2. Now I like that; I dare say he thinks because he is connected with the Press that he should have the first reading of it.

  3. Mark uses the word which means rather the vat into which the juice from the press proper flowed, was to extract and collect the precious liquid; the tower was for the watchman.

  4. Our Lord follows the original passage in the description of the preparation of the vineyard, but it would probably be going too far to press special meanings on the wall, the wine-press, and the watchman's tower.

  5. For the purpose of whispering his interrogation, he changed his attitude for a moment so as to press still closer to Jesus.

  6. Fear but one thing--that He pass on to carry life and health to other souls, ere you resolve to press to His feet.

  7. When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched His garment.

  8. It is no pleasant thing to submit the bleeding stump to the actual cautery, and to press it, all sensitive, upon the hot plate that will stop the flow of blood.

  9. He went to Italy when its people were incensed by the conduct of the newly fledged Jugoslavs, and when the press was in the throes of inflammatory polemics over the fate of the Treaty of London.

  10. After this climax of virulence, a tendency developed in the press tending to mitigate the effect of such rancor.

  11. After that they had but to observe daily events or read of them in the public press to become apprised of what is meant by world progress.

  12. The sea has its mouth on the earth, and the gorse and the trees press together, and they all look up at the moon, they put up their faces in a kiss, my darling.

  13. A peculiar feeling, as if his belly were turned into nothingness, made him want to press his fists into his abdomen.

  14. I am afraid I press you,' he said, smiling in his gentle, chivalric German fashion.

  15. I suppose not," she agreed, and did not press him for the information.

  16. He says some of them were so dead tired that when they were marching they'd press close up together; and often he's slept while moving his legs in a mechanical way, held up by his comrades all around.

  17. I'm sorry for the feller that tries to run the gauntlet of my fire; because my finger's on the trigger all the while, and just itchin' to press harder.

  18. However, I must press you, for the longer you stay on this world, the greater the risk is for my people.

  19. Except, of course, that if fire really broke out, it would be quicker to press the button that sent the automatic fire-fighting machines into immediate action.

  20. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press Copyright, 1893, by G.

  21. He was about to kneel to her, to thank her, even to press her in his arms.

  22. I leave my readers to imagine if Louis did not imprint a few kisses on the fainting beauty he bears so carefully in his arms, and if now and then he did not press her closer to his breast.

  23. While we were at Hartsville a case of types and printing press had been found in the deserted room once occupied as a printing office, and were immediately put to use.

  24. With the instinct, too, which he felt in common with all men who are born generals, Breckinridge wished to press upon the enemy and strike him if he discovered a vulnerable point.

  25. Their duties were to transmit information and orders between the column and the guard, and to regulate the gait of the former, so that it would not press too close on the latter, and, also, to prevent any straggling between the two.

  26. From a passage in General Bragg's report, it would seem that it had been part of the plan to press more strongly upon our right and drive the enemy down the river, "leaving the left open for him to escape.

  27. Some of the prisoners were made to wade the river, as the enemy from Castalian Springs began to press upon us so closely that we could not "stand upon the order of transportation.

  28. Formerly the Northern press styled all the Southern cavalry guerrillas, because they traveled about the country freely, and gave their enemies some trouble.

  29. Colonel Ashby and General Stephenson were to press them in rear; General Humphrey Marshall was to move to Mt.

  30. A small body of mounted men was usually kept in reserve to act on the flanks, cover a retreat, or press a victory, but otherwise our men fought very little on horseback, except on scouting expeditions.

  31. Colonel Grigsby was detached with his regiment to press on and burn the bridges near Versailles.

  32. The enemy then gave way; the other companies were, in the mean time, brought up to press them.

  33. Each brigade commander was ordered (when he became disengaged), to seek and attack the nearest enemy, to press the flank of every stubborn hostile force which his neighbors could not move, and at all hazards to press forward.

  34. And through the press men crowded up to touch him, and the virtue that went out from him restored to them their souls--their bluebird with the earth on its breast and the sky, the blue sky, on its back.

  35. Of course the press attracts me, as I intend to belong to the staff when I get through teaching young ideas.

  36. Why, it is 'The Press and the Sunday-school.

  37. It was all that he could do to kiss his daughter and press Simon's hand.

  38. Then Simon rushed towards him, with outstretched arms and an immense longing to press him to his breast.

  39. Mr. Aiken did not press for an answer, but went to the door, persuading his pipe to draw by the way.

  40. It is too small to accommodate more than three normal press columns in the width.

  41. A suggestion that Charley Somebody should come in too was met with so earnest a disclaimer of intention to disturb any fellow-creature anywhere, at any time, that it would have been sheer downright cruelty to press the point.

  42. The Chevalier extended his right arm, allowing Victor to press it with his fingers.

  43. A man can not, after having kissed my hands, press his lips to the cheeks of a Catharine and return again to me.

  44. Where groups of merry-hearted sons of toil Were met to celebrate a village feast; Casting away, in frolic sport, the cares That ever press and crowd and leave their mark Upon the brows of all whose bread is earned By daily labour.

  45. It seems a trifle, to make such a boast of it; But how they will dress it: And bandage and press it, By making the least, to make the most of it!

  46. It consists of three floors with a square central tower containing a lofty room designed for the Press Syndicate, but now used as the Registry of the University.

  47. Under that system the university simply licensed tradesmen (who might, or might not, be members of the university) to print and sell books; and the proper working of the Press was dependent on the capabilities of the individual printer.

  48. A Syndicate was accordingly appointed with plenary powers over the Press for three years.

  49. A more famous addition to the Press buildings is that associated with the name of William Pitt.

  50. That all graces granted by yͤ Senate relating to yͤ Press be entered into yͤ said Register.

  51. From the same documents it appears that the normal output of a press at this time was 900 reams per annum.

  52. The condition and extent of the Press in 1852 is summarised in the statement prepared by the Syndics for the Royal Commission.

  53. Mr. Walker, however, did not press the conversation to extremes.

  54. They were stacked up in tiers of twelve on the editorial table, they covered printing-press and make-up stones, there were no chairs left and hardly room remained to move about among the cases because of pies.

  55. The press is a great and peccant engine; and who has public interest more at heart than your editor?

  56. The Associated Press does not handle news unfavorable to the Church, and from top to bottom, the politician takes off his hat when the Sacred Host goes by.

  57. At the same time the Socialist press was handicapped by every sort of persecution.

  58. They caused an obscenity prosecution, which failed; so finally the press rooms of the paper were blown up with dynamite.

  59. Here are the wives and children of the Colorado coal-miners being shot and burned in their beds by Rockefeller gun-men, and the press of the entire country in a conspiracy of silence concerning the matter.

  60. This accounted for the press on the bridge.

  61. I embrace you, my child, and press you to my heart.

  62. For the rest--let the mouth referred to shape itself into the likeness of a narrow funnel, for the lengthening gong-strokes press round about my unfinished labours.

  63. It is of no significance whatsoever to English Letters whether one of its glories be appreciated at the moment it issues from the press or ten years later, or twenty, or fifty.

  64. Do so, my lord," said his wife darkly, "or many valiant champions of the House of Meng may press forward to make a cast of that same account.

  65. It comes, it goes; and the waters press on as before.

  66. He would also press upon that person a silk purse with an onyx clasp, containing twenty-five taels, as a deliberate mark of his individual appreciation and quite apart from anything to do with the transaction on hand.

  67. On the north and the west the barbarians had begun to press forward in resistless waves, and from The Island to The Beak pirates laid waste the coast.

  68. Though he played in many places, he was careful not to win too much in any of them, and rather than press for a debt he would forgive it.

  69. They press forward after wealth, and profess to be accumulating it for Christ; but in the end, spend it on themselves and on their children.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "press" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accelerate; adviser; advocate; afflict; agitate; annex; announcer; apply; appropriate; army; assault; assert; attach; attack; authority; bear; bearing; bed; beg; beset; besiege; boost; bosom; buck; buffer; bug; bull; bump; bundle; bunt; bustle; butt; buttonhole; cabinet; cajole; call; channel; clamp; clasp; clinch; clip; cluster; clutch; coax; commandeer; communicant; compact; compress; compression; compulsion; concentrate; condense; confiscate; conscript; conscription; consolidate; constraint; contend; corkscrew; cram; crisis; crowbar; crowd; crunch; crush; cupboard; deluge; detach; dig; dispatch; draft; drafting; draught; draughtsman; draughty; drive; drove; dun; elbow; embrace; emergency; emphasize; enfold; enforce; enlightener; enlist; enlistment; enroll; enrollment; entreat; exhort; exigency; expedite; expropriate; flock; flood; fold; force; forward; galaxy; garnish; gathering; goad; grapevine; hasten; haul; have; head; heap; heave; herd; hie; hint; horde; host; hug; hurry; hurtle; hustle; importune; impound; impress; impressment; impulse; induce; induct; induction; informant; informer; insist; iron; jam; join; jolt; jostle; levy; list; lobby; machinery; maintain; make; mangle; mass; mob; mobilization; mobilize; monitor; mouthpiece; multiply; multitude; muster; nag; nationalize; nip; nudge; oppress; overstrain; overtax; pack; panoply; persist; persuade; pester; pincers; pinch; pipette; plague; plead; ply; poke; precipitate; press; pressure; printer; prod; publisher; pull; pump; punch; push; quicken; rabble; rack; radio; railroad; raise; ram; rattle; recommend; recruit; recruitment; replevin; reporter; rise; roll; rout; ruck; run; rush; sadden; screw; sequester; shake; shoulder; shove; siphon; smooth; smoother; socialize; solidify; source; spate; speed; spokesman; spur; squash; squeeze; squeezing; stampede; stick; strain; stress; stretch; stuff; summon; summons; tamp; tax; tease; television; teller; tense; tension; throng; thrust; tighten; tightening; tipster; tout; trample; tug; tweak; urge; urgency; wad; web; wheedle; whip; witness; wring


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    press agent; press forward; press them; press through; press together; pressed down; pressed forward; pressed upon; pressure cylinder; pressure engine; pressure engines; pressure gauge; pressure groups; pressure steam