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Example sentences for "shoved"

Lexicographically close words:
shouther; shouting; shoutings; shouts; shove; shovel; shoveled; shoveler; shovelers; shovelful
  1. The three jumped out on the little pier, shoved the launch off, and it was quickly lost in the darkness.

  2. NOW just imagine that we are really hunting fish," Charley directed, as he shoved his skiff from shore.

  3. As soon as they were safely aboard, the lad shoved off and with a long pole propelled the ungainly craft to the other side of the river.

  4. Just as he concluded, there came the sound of shuffling footsteps outside, and a bit of rustling white paper was shoved in under the door of the shack.

  5. Springing back to the engine, he shoved on the switch and flung the fly wheel over.

  6. He asked no questions, however, but jumped aboard and shoved off.

  7. He pulled in the trailing end of the severed cable, and, making it fast to the bundle of planks, shoved them over the bow.

  8. Just shoved a penny out whenever I came on top.

  9. The barrister shoved his chair sideways until he was able to reach a bookcase, from which he took a bulky interleaved volume.

  10. Rupert ultimately abandoned the effort to eat, shoved his chair away from the table, and determined to reperuse with some show of calmness and criticism, the practically verbatim report of the coroner's inquiry.

  11. The sounds of Furneaux's jaunty footsteps had barely died away before he shoved aside the papers on which he had been engaged previously, and reached across the table for a box of cigars.

  12. He took one, and shoved the box towards Clarke, whose face was still glistening in evidence of his rush from Marlborough Street police-station.

  13. When his feet touched the rock, he "shoved off" vigorously.

  14. He found that Prince, in the white sloop, had just put Captain Chinks on board, and had already shoved off.

  15. After him, Bobtail," cried the detective, earnestly, as he shoved off the bow of the boat.

  16. I shoved the body, encased in its black sack, with Hans helping me.

  17. Gutierrez shoved me down the ladder ahead of him.

  18. Just a steel-wire net in the shape of a fan, hinged from the trawler's cutwater and supported from pulleys at the end of beams shoved out like catheads over the bows.

  19. He reached it and stretched forth a hand to grasp it, when another swimmer, coming behind him, shoved him violently aside and seized it.

  20. Let em go," shouted Osgood as he shoved the brake back.

  21. For eight years I had been shoved in life from pillar to post, until now threats had no terrors for me.

  22. Running down to the end of the pier, I dropped into the boat and shoved off.

  23. Brent drank the whiskey in his glass and refilling it, shoved the bottle toward Camillo Bill, but the man shook his head.

  24. Almost from the time I made my strike I never drew a sober breath, until I'd shoved my last marker across the table.

  25. He stood in the doorway and stared into the dirty interior where Brent, with the unwashed dishes of his last meal shoved back, sat reading.

  26. Paul, and the other two, rose and shoved the gun to its berth; and the small-arms men showed themselves at the rails.

  27. He shoved up my head, and put a napkin under it.

  28. A volcano shoved itself through there that night, and elevated his brickyard about two thousand feet in the air.

  29. Had she found a chair overturned, a rug rumpled, a table shoved a little from its accustomed place?

  30. He shoved the bunk away from its place in the corner, opened a trap-door in the floor and, lamp in hand, went down into the cabin's cellar.

  31. He----" Lee shoved the man aside and strode on.

  32. He shoved the swing door open with his shoulder, Carson pushed the other half back, and the two stood on the threshold, their eyes swiftly seeking Quinnion.

  33. And something stirring restlessly within him shoved aside the thought of Marcia and put in its stead the old wonder: "What sort of a Judith would he see to-night?

  34. So that episode, as well as Trevors himself, was shoved aside in their minds, in the stress of activity demanding attention everywhere.

  35. La Brognerie with twenty-six men, French and Indians, got behind it, and shoved the cart towards the stranded sloops.

  36. The English wasted much powder in vain efforts to dislodge the besiegers from their trenches; till at length, seeing a machine loaded with a tar-barrel and other combustibles shoved against their palisades, they asked for a parley.

  37. Lamson sprang to his feet, but the big rancher put out a big hand and shoved him back.

  38. He'd taken Sue's nightgown and father's black coat and a lot of stockings, and shoved them all under the needle, and was sewing them all together.

  39. They all joined in that, but at just that moment the old sleigh shoved her goose-necks over the little roll at the edge of the first really steep slope of the East Hill road, and she seemed to give a great jump.

  40. But the reckless passing of a truck, beyond the second line of rails, frightened a group of country women who were in course of passage; they were just in front of Bibbs, and shoved backward upon him violently.

  41. The fender shoved the ole man around some, but I reckon he only got shook up.

  42. And Abel said to his father, "Because Cain shoved me from the altar, and would not allow me to offer my gift on it, I made an altar for myself and offered my gift on it.

  43. I'd no use for any trouble of that kind, and I shoved the boat off while he was seeing how many ca'tridges there were in the magazine.

  44. He waded in and grabbed the boat when he saw I was sure going, but I shoved her away from him.

  45. It was blowing fresh, and hazy, and she just shoved a new gang of killers ashore.

  46. Then a newcomer shoved his way through the rest, and I saw that he was the genuine article as he stood before me in Montana cattle-rider's dress.

  47. Captain Putnam strode over to the rock and shoved back the lid of the case.

  48. He shoved the bag outside and swung it to the left as far as possible--directly in front of another window.

  49. Bock was also alarmed, both at the shouts from shore and from the swimmers at a distance, and had shoved off, so the pair had to wade in up to their knees to get on board.

  50. Then Frank Barringer was shoved into the guardroom.

  51. Such rare luxuries as oranges and English walnuts were stuffed into bags of red netting, and these in turn were shoved into the foot of each stocking.

  52. The wind shoved at the door and rattled the black window panes.

  53. By this time there had been a severe thinning out of officers and others in command, and the men, too eager, shoved on towards the 4th line very quickly, and got into the fire of our own artillery.

  54. A hole was opened in the side of the trench, the body was shoved in, and the grave filled up.

  55. Assistance, however, was near at hand; the accident had been witnessed from the island; Sir Harry and the keeper had shoved off immediately in their boat, and pulled vigorously for the spot.

  56. A large man, wedged sidewise in the jam, was shoved against Saxon, crushing her closely against Billy, who reached across to the man's shoulder with a massive thrust that was not so slow as usual.

  57. She withdrew her arms and shoved him away, only to receive him forgivingly half a dozen seconds afterward.

  58. The woman released her grip on Mary and was shoved back and free.

  59. Gilbert Forrester shoved the map along to his neighbor, and cleared his throat.


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