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Example sentences for "pressed forward"

  • Heedless of all impediments, he pressed forward--now dashing beneath overhanging boughs at the risk of his neck--now skirting the edge of a glen where a false step might have proved fatal.

  • Through the long brilliant night with my companion I pressed forward, sometimes clambering over rough rocks, split by the heat of noon and chills of night, and at others sinking knee-deep in soft sand-drifts.

  • The yell was heard, and some of the divisions, but not all, pressed forward to a wild charge.

  • We pressed forward along a narrow road leading through a thick growth of timber, until we came where the Fifth corps was contending the ground.

  • Gibbons' division halted at the railroad, near the wood, Meade's pressed forward, and presently disappeared among the trees.

  • Our men fell in bunches; still came the charging column on; faster and faster it pressed forward.

  • Thus through many dreary hours we pressed forward in the dull, dispiriting gloom.

  • Once again the knowledge of her passionate love held me to my purpose; once again I pressed forward blindly to seek the knowledge that for all time had been withheld from man.

  • On Friday, June 2, the Germans, after a concentrated bombardment with heavy artillery, pressed forward to the assault and succeeded in penetrating the British lines.

  • It prevented the crossing at certain points on its front while, on either flank, the Germans, who had gained a footing, pressed forward.

  • Save for the bungling movements of Paul and myself, not a sound could be heard as we pressed forward, keenly on the alert for the enemy, and ready for an immediate attack.

  • Quitman on the Tacubaya causeway, the rifles and 1st artillery of Smith's brigade in advance, Worth on the San Cosme causeway, pressed forward in pursuit of the enemy.

  • With glad hearts the light troops pressed forward, until assured that the enemy had halted for the night, when they lighted fires, laid down, and slumbered for three or four hours.

  • In my enthusiasm I stood up, I pressed forward, I leaned far over towards the stage, that I might not lose a word, a look, a gesture.

  • Ferdinand, having rested a short time in his beautiful capital, pressed forward to Castile, where his presence was eagerly expected.

  • Numerous volunteers, comprehending the noblest of the young chivalry of Spain, pressed forward to serve under the banner of this accomplished and popular chieftain.

  • The natives invited him to strike into its western depths in vain, and he pressed forward to the south, now solely occupied with the grand object of discovering a passage into the Indian Ocean.

  • Forde did not wait for them; but, leaving his guns behind him, pressed forward, an hour after the defeat of the French, against their camp.

  • Although mowed down in scores, the seasoned warriors of the Mahratta chief, cheered on by his voice as, recklessly exposing himself, he rode among them, pressed forward.

  • The mighty column, however, composed of the troops of the nizam, pressed forward, poured over the fragments of the wall, and entered the clear space behind it.

  • We pressed forward in silence through the shadowy labyrinth of the wood for a time, but at the crossing of a small runlet where we would stop to let the horses drink, Tybee burst out a-laughing.

  • All that Sunday we pressed forward, hasting as we could through the stark columned aisles of the autumn-stripped forest, and looking hourly to come upon Tarleton's legion marching out to Ferguson's relief.

  • We chanced a guess that they had joined the hue and cry, and so we pressed forward, past the handful of embers and into the pit-black depths beyond.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pressed forward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after many; before long; broadly oval; but all the same; certeine number; customs officers; external violence; first appearance; five bushels; great saving; hostile territory; liquid fire; little after; none other name under heaven given; political rights; pressed down; pressed forward; pressed upon; principal chief; she could; shorten sail; speedy and public trial; three pounds; written order