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Example sentences for "shove"

Lexicographically close words:
shouters; shouther; shouting; shoutings; shouts; shoved; shovel; shoveled; shoveler; shovelers
  1. By jings, Mars Tom, le's shove for home right on de spot!

  2. Then you jump for the balloon and shove for Mount Sinai three hundred miles an hour.

  3. You'd better take Tammy with you, and shove those lamps back again into the locker.

  4. It's got to be up hellum, an' shove her into the nearest bloomin' port.

  5. Shove that mat and that sinnet away, you two," he said.

  6. Well, it has, and you'd better jump aloft and shove the gasket round it again.

  7. It was blowing adrift, and I sent you up to shove a gasket round it.

  8. Then go and get his, and shove it up on the starboard side.

  9. Shove some paraffin on to it, Plummer," I called to him.

  10. Shove one under the spanker boom," the Old Man sung out, as the boy finished lashing up the other two.

  11. Our next move was to shove the screen back and mount the volunteer singers, melodeon and all, upon the platform,--some twenty of them crowded together behind the minister.

  12. The thirsty citizen or sailor has only to step into a boat and give it a shove or two across the narrow stream that separates the United States from Deer Island and land, when he can ruin his breath, and return before he is missed.

  13. Didn't say I would, but it's like enough as some 'un might shove a boat-hook through or drop in a good big boulder stone.

  14. Don't shove hard, or you'll be taking the skin off.

  15. Tell your men to give my boat a shove off.

  16. Besides, in less than an hour the tide'll be up all round her, and we can shove her off oursens.

  17. The words penetrated just as he was about to shove once more.

  18. With a shove here, a warning there, he moulded the scattered groups into a fairly orderly line.

  19. Then to his amazement, the latter saw the oarsman calmly shove off and turn the boat's prow back to the wharf.

  20. A bark was beating in for anchorage, and Mr. Swain was seen to shove off his boat from the Fortitude, and pull out towards her.

  21. But the war dance is about finished for to-night, and it's time to muster the boys and shove off.

  22. Shove off, and get your oars out as fast as you can!

  23. We held our way directly to the boat, and seizing the gunwale, I made signs for help to shove her into the water.

  24. To just shove it out of the window into the street!

  25. He wants to Wake Up Wimblehurst, invent something, do something, shove something.

  26. Twitch three times on the rope to let me know when you're ready and shove out and upstream as strongly as you can.

  27. Banneker, with one foot in the boat, gave a little shove and caught up his oars.

  28. Shove me your fist, my hearty,' cried Jenkins, 'as soon as you have done there.

  29. Should any lubber pull alongside, my name's not Jenkins if I don force him to strike his colours, and shove off with broken timbers.

  30. And I wouldn’t try to jump off at first; just fall forward, and give the least little bit of a shove with your feet at the last moment.

  31. The beetle had encountered an acorn at least ten times his size and was vainly striving to shove it out of his path.

  32. Make all haste to the boats and shove off; but preserve silence, and keep the line well closed up.

  33. If that was the case he would of course make the best of his way to the boat; and if he got there before Julius did he would shove off alone, and Julius would be left behind to labor under the lash of the overseer.

  34. Take it into the garden, and shove it under some of the bushes.

  35. These are the days of close scrimmage play, when nine men on each side put their heads down with the ball between them, and shove for dear life.

  36. The teams, springing to their places in the scrimmage, began to shove furiously before the ball is in play.

  37. He hands his friend to a couple of men standing near, strides over to Mooney, and catching him by the throat begins to shove him back through the crowd.

  38. A month afterwards I would dash over them with a shove here and a stroke there in answer to a hoarse croak of the stones at the bottom grinding against my keel.

  39. A man came to raise the bridge by machinery, and he was surprised to see my way of passing it instead, that is, to shove my boat under it, while I quietly walked over the top and got into the boat at the other side.

  40. Why, if we don't give him a shove the poor dumb-bell never will propose!

  41. Now if anybody comes in looking for a cheap house, remember we got to shove that Bangor Road place off onto somebody.

  42. I can shove her off without help; and as to me being seen, I'm about at all times.

  43. Will you obligingly shove that box--which you mentioned on a former occasion as containing miscellanies--towards me in the midst of the shop here?

  44. We lay in wait, eager for the word to shove off and go in chase.

  45. The rest got in, and I held on the painter, to be in readiness to shove off the moment he returned.

  46. With that I give him a shove and went into the entry-way.

  47. With that I gin the chap a shove with one of my mudgrapplers, and walked right intu the long entry-way, as crank as a militia trainer with his regimentals on.

  48. So whatever I get started on, I mean to pitch in and shove up my sleeves, and go at it.

  49. When we got there we didn't dare to go in, first of it, but stood peeking in the door, and by and by Old Wonder Boy gave me a shove and made me tumble in.

  50. And he proposes to shove in a report that will smother development by outside capital.

  51. Common decency won't let you shove me into the ground at once, and so you will have to make up your minds for a second summons.

  52. Uncle Denis thought it prudent, therefore, to reload the boat, that we might be ready to shove off at a moment's notice.

  53. Come with me now; it's all up with the garrison, but we may have still time to get on board the boat and shove off into the lake.

  54. The wind appears to have gone down considerably, and we shall be wiser to shove off as soon as we have light to see our way, without waiting for breakfast.

  55. They will be all right," he answered; "I promised to burn a blue light as soon as you were safe on board, when they were immediately to shove off.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shove" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    actuate; advance; assault; bear; bearing; boost; boot; bootleg; bowl; buck; bull; bump; bunt; butt; cram; crowd; dig; drive; elbow; fence; force; forward; goad; head; hurtle; hustle; impel; interpose; jam; jolt; jostle; mobilize; moonshine; motivate; move; nudge; pedal; plunge; poke; pole; press; pressure; prod; propel; propelling; propulsion; pull; punch; push; ram; rattle; roll; row; run; shake; shoulder; shove; shoving; shunt; stick; stress; stuff; sweep; tamp; throw; thrust; traffic; treadle; troll; trundle; urge