Without any apparent cause it keeps near the ground, throwing out crooked, divergent branches like an orchard apple-tree, and seldom pushes a single shoot higher than fifteen or twenty feet above the ground.
MASON with a cry of horror pushes through the crowd at the doorway, which parts to let him through.
The man takes hold of the button with his right hand, puts his left thumb into the buttonhole and pushes the button against it.
Then he pulls the stuff over with his right forefinger and pushes the button through with his right thumb while he guides it with his left.
His pessimism, indeed, is inexorable, and he pushes the misfortune, or more often the degradation, of his characters to its extreme logical conclusion.
So the side of the root where the cells first swell out grows fastest and thus pushes the root over on the opposite side.
They also give the tap-root something to brace its back against, as it were, while it pushes down for water, for the moisture in the damper portion of the soil beneath.
As it pushes its way in farther and farther it is growing bigger and bigger, and it is this steady pressure that breaks the rock.
On the other hand we had still the prospect of another of those fearful pushes without water to encounter, as soon as we left our present encampment, and had first to recover the provisions and other things yet so far away.
A fat little red-faced boy pushes the skillet back and forth to keep the butter from burning.
A strong arm pushes me back, and the unhappy Nan is thrown back into the crowd of slaves, lashed by the whips.
Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.
Defn: One who pushes a principle or measure to extremes; an extremist; a radical; an ultra.
Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor.
Man's destiny pushes him to happiness: that is why it denies him rest.
French move capital temporarily to Bordeaux to allow Allies to pivot left wing on Paris; German cavalry corps defeated by British near Compiègne; another pushes on to Soissons; French report success in Lorraine.
Russian Army pushes fifty miles into Prussia, capturing three towns; Servian version of victory at Losnitza confirmed in Rome; Montenegrins continue attack.
At last he finds another track, andpushes on as fast as he can.
He pusheshimself into the thicket, and raises his club to strike when the boy shall pass.
The inhibiting agent is a something called the censor, who pushes back into the subconsciousness the socially tabooed, the socially abhorrent desires; represses emotions and instincts that are socially out of order.
Wells' History, with all its defects, pushesthe "conquerors" to their real place as enemies of the race.
When the workman pushes this piece of wood, the piston is drawn out of the pipe; when it returns by its own weight, the piston is pushed in.
Then, assisted by other workmen, he pushes the mass of lead forward with crowbars on to a low trolley, and draws it to the crane.
Holding the back part with his hands, the carrier pushes out the truck laden with excavated material, and pushes it back again empty.
When the copper is melting and the coals blaze, the master pushes an iron bar into the middle of them in order that they may receive the air, and that the flame can force its way out.
Thus the workman, eager at his labour, standing on the flooring boards, pushes the piston down into the pipe and draws it out again.
So a section pushes forward against the rocks, crawling along the ground.
She starts to caress him, but he leaps to his feet and pushes her away.
Knipperdollink (as he pushes back the iron door and enters ahead of the rest).
She goes to the door leading into the church and pushes it ajar.
He appears in the door, and pushes through the crowd until he reaches the Harlot, whose hand he takes so that he can pull her away from the drunken men about her.
This collects and carries a large amount of pollen, which is deposited upon the stigmas of other flowers when the butterfly pushes its head down into the flower tube after nectar.
He may then, as hepushes down after nectar, leave some pollen upon the pistil, thus assisting in self-pollination.
If it pushesits way past any dense substance in the water, the cell body is seen to change its shape temporarily as it squeezes through.
The grass never pushesitself up in little, untimely blades through the winter, thus leaving our lawns and fields full of bare patches in the warmer season.
Every time he stammers it makes him angry, and he pushes and strains and exerts himself with so much effort to speak, that the stammering, in consequence, increases.
This undulatory movement, as it is called, pushes the fish's body ahead.
The seedling beet pushes out roots and begins early to take food from the soil.
As countless generations of little toads have done before, it pushes boldly out over the land and away from the water.
In burying itself the toad digs with its hind legs and body, and pushes itself backward into the hole with the front legs.
Cocoon of Promethea, cut open lengthwise to show the valve-like device at upper end through which the adult moth pushes its way out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pushes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
