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Example sentences for "push"

Lexicographically close words:
purveyor; purveyors; purview; pus; puscule; pushcart; pushed; pusher; pushers; pushes
  1. I mean they'd all been in the family car, so we just had to tow it to a gravel pit and push it in.

  2. Push the door open and find your way up the stairs.

  3. Beside that I'm anxious to make all the time I can and when we leave here I mean to push ahead night and day without stopping.

  4. To push her in shoal water, for one thing," answered Sam, "and to fend off of banks and trees.

  5. They had just shoved off, when keen Sir Walter saw another boat push out from the bank and follow them.

  6. In some cases barely 100 yards separated the skirmishers from the Boer riflemen, but Major-General Colvile had not sufficient strength to push home a decisive attack upon the ridge, even had his instructions not forbidden him to do so.

  7. This the Wiltshire, moving in six lines 100 yards apart, did without loss, under a fire so trifling that the enemy seemed to be falling back, and Stephenson sent word to the General requesting permission to push the attack home.

  8. With the Dublin Fusiliers, the general trend had been towards the left; now after a short pause at the edge of the plantation they attempted to push on in that direction.

  9. Footnote 261: "To seize and hold Naauwpoort, and whenever possible to push on and gain possession of Colesberg.

  10. After making preparations to repulse any attempt by the enemy to recapture the village, the Brigadier began to organise a force with which to push up the right bank towards Modder River village, and thus attack the heart of the defence.

  11. The two leading companies of Thorneycroft's corps still tried to push on, but they were stopped by finding that they were outflanked by Boers occupying the ridge to the eastward.

  12. Gatacre, nevertheless, decided that he would give his men an hour's rest, and then push on.

  13. These gained, it would be possible to push northward along the flank, threatening the Colesberg road bridge and the enemy's line of retreat, regarding the safety of which the Boers had shown themselves peculiarly sensitive.

  14. Julian Byng, to demonstrate against the southern slope of the hill, and had directed Thorneycroft's and the Composite regiment to work round by the Gomba Spruit, and to endeavour to push through the dense thorn-bush up the eastern face.

  15. Being without a single weapon of defence, they could only jump into their boats without loss of time, and push for the land.

  16. Push on, in the name of God, all who can swim.

  17. Guy, throwing up his hat; "let us push on and camp on the edge of it.

  18. We better push on, these fellows sneak 'long a camp some night.

  19. And as for the Bank, they seldom push any customer in whom they have confidence, and who has a real good property at his back.

  20. The recoil of a revolver can be likened to a blow with the fist, whereas the recoil of the automatic pistol is like a hard push with the open hand.

  21. Army Automatic, be sure to draw the pistol without any pressure on the safety at back of stock, only push the thumb safety and put the pressure on the other release only as you fire.

  22. In rifle shooting the left hand steadies the rifle and prevents this tendency to push off to one side and also in a measure counteracts the effects of snatching or jerking at the trigger.

  23. The right hand has not only to aim the pistol, but also to counteract the effect of any jerk, snatch, or push to one side from defective trigger pressing.

  24. Always press straight back on your trigger, do not push it off to the left, or jerk at it.

  25. As you draw, push the safety off with the thumb, pulling the pistol out with the fingers against the front of the grip, so as not to touch the back safety lever, and squeeze that with your palm in firing.

  26. Slight hand-pressure only was then required to push the partitions down.

  27. The wolves sought to push open the door, but Ralph's arm foiled them.

  28. He did not push ahead of the women as some of the other men did.

  29. The sun was getting rather low, and they had an idea that they would push on to Buldeo's village and see that wicked witch.

  30. They liked the warmth of the fire, too, and huddled round it till Purun Bhagat had to push them aside to throw on more fuel; and in the morning, as often as not, he would find a furry ape sharing his blanket.

  31. It was so late when they finished that Gabe decided they would stay another night in the hotel at Bloody Canyon, and push forward in the morning.

  32. Mr. Harrison was not so much interested, as he was anxious to push on to the mines, but he well knew the camp larder could stand a little addition in the way of fresh meat, and he agreed to go hunting with the others.

  33. In order to avoid repetition and to put before the reader ideas which he will have no difficulty in assimilating, we shall push our work of analysis and generalization farther still.

  34. Their one idea, therefore, was to push the apex of the pyramid as far up into the sky as they could.

  35. Two pulls at this and the boat took the push of the propeller.

  36. He would make an essay through the window, push the Sprite along the rollers and down into the well, unlock the water door from the inside, and then, under her own power, take her out into the cove.

  37. Susan, giving him a push 'Innocents like you, too!

  38. But it is not too late to push the party on as far as the cliffs, where we shall be in sight of the vessels, and we may possibly establish a claim to our share of the prize-money.

  39. I----" The man gave him a last push and closed the door.

  40. She arose and tried to push out into the aisle--anywhere.

  41. It was push and jam for a minute, with grim, beast silence to prove its quality, and then it melted inward, like logs floating, and disappeared.

  42. With a sad, foreboding spirit I assisted to push off from the shore.

  43. But you can't drag the kid to the lake and push him in.

  44. Someone in the push starts the cry that he's found a new place, and off they all go to try it.

  45. There were bushes that were difficult to push through, and long branches, covered with thorns, that reached out at you and tore at you when you tried to get away.

  46. At the same time, holding to both of them, but kicking frantically with his feet, Dalzell managed slowly to push the buoys toward Dave.

  47. Sir," demanded Farley hotly, "why did you push Mr. Darrin over the rail.

  48. On Sunday, late in the afternoon, the 7th Dublins got the word to push on to the crest of the hill and relieve the battalions that had captured it.

  49. THE GREAT PUSH AT LOOS 119 Historical Football Charge of the London Irish, with the German Trenches as Goal XI.

  50. Yes, I do--that is, if you won't push matters too fast and will be patient.

  51. I've got everything ready, with nothing to do but lay back the cloth and push the plates into their places.

  52. Buck was the first to push back from the table.

  53. Buck paused to push the boiler off the stove.

  54. I bear witness, and there are others to bear witness with me, that a whole world of strange figures and wonderful places opened up to our eyes when we began to push ashore and to leave the sandy beach behind us.

  55. Burning as our brains were, heavy the limbs, we could still push on across the meadows, search with our eyes for those poor people we had come out to save.

  56. And yet the old man must push on--up, up, as though he would touch the very sky.

  57. It's through the next house, where you can push open the door at the bottom of the steps.

  58. It was all a job to push the door open, but I did, and there I was, without anybody seeing me.

  59. It didn't take me long to push it through, and when I got that out the rest was easy.

  60. There's a trap door in the ceiling that you can reach by standing on a broken chair; you push it up and scramble through, and there you are in Samuel Boyd's kitchen.

  61. Then you push the sliding panel back, and there you are, shut up in a box like.

  62. You go into that little room, and you push a sliding panel in the wall just at the back of the pianner, and you creep in.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "push" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accelerate; actuate; advance; advertise; advocate; aggression; agitate; ambition; assault; attack; authority; bang; bear; bearing; beef; beset; besiege; boost; boot; bootleg; bowl; breakthrough; buck; bug; bull; bump; bunch; bundle; bunt; bustle; butt; buttonhole; cajole; campaign; charge; circle; climacteric; clout; clutch; coax; coerce; cogency; compress; compulsion; constrain; constraint; counterattack; cram; crisis; crossroads; crowd; crunch; crush; dash; dig; dint; dispatch; diversion; drive; drove; dun; duress; dynamism; effect; effectiveness; elbow; emergency; endeavor; energy; enterprise; exert; exertion; exhort; exigency; expedite; extremity; fence; fire; flank; force; forward; gas; get; ginger; goad; group; gumption; hasten; head; hie; hinge; horde; hurry; hurtle; hustle; impel; impetus; importune; impulse; inch; incite; increase; induce; infiltrate; infiltration; influence; initiative; insist; interpose; jam; jolt; jostle; kick; lobby; lot; mana; mash; might; mob; mobilize; momentum; moonshine; motivate; move; multiply; nag; nudge; offense; offensive; onset; onslaught; pass; pedal; pepper; pester; pinch; plague; plead; plug; plunge; ply; poke; pole; potency; potentiality; precipitate; prepotency; press; pressure; prod; productiveness; productivity; promote; propel; propelling; propulsion; provocative; provoke; publicize; puff; pull; pump; punch; push; quicken; railroad; ram; rattle; recommend; rise; roll; row; rub; run; rush; scramble; sell; shake; shame; shoulder; shove; shoving; shunt; sinew; snap; sortie; speed; spirit; spread; spunk; spur; squab; squash; squeeze; stampede; starch; steam; stick; stimulant; stimulus; strain; strait; strength; stress; strike; superiority; superpower; sweep; talk; tamp; tease; throng; throw; thrust; tout; traffic; treadle; troll; trundle; turn; urge; urgency; validity; vehemence; verve; vigor; vim; virility; virtue; virulence; vitality; weight; wheedle; whip; zing


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    push button; push forward; pushed back; pushed forward; pushing forward