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    Examples of push in a Sentence

  • Examples of push
    1. Please push the door to.
    2. Ross Perot's advisers suggest he may push a much bolder plan, investing hundreds of billions in infrastructure; but until he delivers, Clinton clearly occupies the high ground against Bushonomics.
    3. Push it in until it catches.  The engine finally caught and roared to life. ‎
    4. Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!   If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop and roll. ‎
    5. Push the aglet of the shoelace through each of the eyelets, one at a time.
    6. I gave the boy a push on the swing. ‎
    7. The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works.  When I push this button the program hangs. ‎
    8. The push button or other car switch control for operating the inclinator in both directions oftravelshall be magnetically controlled and shall be properly fused being provided with a device for protecting the motor from overload.
    9. The push to add surveillance to the war zones may also require a rethinking of how the current crop of jetfighters is outfitted for war, as well as whether to look at low-tech fixes, like using off-the-lot Cessnas outfitted with surveillance gear.
  • Examples of pushes
    1. As a jet barrels down a runway, the air above its airfoiled wings moves faster than the air below, creating a difference in air pressure that pulls and pushes the plane up.
    2. [ … ] Mr. Leleux (born Robert O’Doole) pushes his luck to make them sound superhumanly snappy.
    3. One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
    4. When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
  • Examples of pushed
    1. The drifting seaweed went where ever the currents pushed it.
    2. And although they were pushed harder than even Lennon might have expected on a night of galeforce winds, they clung on to the lead Ledley gave them for all they were worth until their rivals had blown themselves out and surrendered top spot.
    3. The bullies pushed the boy over and gave him a kicking.
    4. Some who had sold their outfits at Skagway, and pushed on light-handed so as to get through, began to appropriate new outfits on the other side.
    5. He pushed himself to the max.
    6. He pushed with all his might, but still it would not move.
    7. His dwelling on recriminatory memories pushed him into depression.
    8. "Constantine pushed him through mid-off for a quickly scampered single."
    9. "The second ball was pushed to mid-off for a scampered single."
    10. Believably, Mikey said John pushed him first.
    11. Fulham pushed for an equaliser and went close through Dempsey, the American forcing a smart low save from Al Habsi after prodding Davies's shot goalwards.
  • Examples of pushing
    1. One thing for sure, with the way the free-market purists have turned everything from political representation to health care to spiritual redemption into mere vendibles, they won’t be pleased with him for pushing this particular line of inquiry.
    2. 'Git aht!' said Liza, pushing him away, not too gently.
    3. Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
    4. Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders!
    5. The parish deacon was always pushing to get new kneelers for the church, probably because he was old and his knees were sensitive.
    6. ["]Why, you ought to have been ready half an hour ago!" she said, pushing him into his room fondly. "You're a lackadaisical lallygag, that's what you are! Do you realize how much you've got to do to-day, Mr. Bonistelle?"
    7. About 2 hours in, a long lull cleared everyone out, and then it started getting a little more consistent and pushing chest ta neck high — 808surfer.com forum [1]
    8. Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine. ‎
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