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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "pushing" in a sentence

    pushing example sentences

    pushing


    1. “Oh, that…” he waves a dismissive palm, pushing his lips out into a kissy-face


    2. “I have a flower!” Moyo announces, pushing it toward the closest woman


    3. A WORKER in a white coat, young kid with long blond hair, rock-and-roll t-shirt approaches pushing a gurney with a patient on it


    4. ’ Barney said, pushing the plate away from him with so much enthusiasm that it nearly falls off the table


    5. at the far wall and pushing on past the gambling man, she had responded


    6. ’ He said, pushing the empty mug away from him


    7. There had to be life support in the cabin and people pushing buttons to make things happen aboard


    8. We had quite a row about it – me pushing aside all his queries about life here and asking what he’d seen in Italy …


    9. In a daze, I walk round the aisles pushing the trolley and putting items in it … reaching the pharmacy section, I stand before the display of condoms and pregnancy testing kits feeling very ignorant


    10. In spite of the fact that this area of the planet did have motors, the vast majority of heavy cargo moved under sail and was loaded and unloaded by shirtless, sweating men pushing it on rollers in the late Afternoonday sun

    11. The gaoler fiddled with his keys and unlocked the door at the end of the passage, pushing it back to reveal a short flight of steps carved out of natural rock


    12. ‘Whereabouts on the island is the touching place, Lintze?’ Berndt asked, producing a map of the island and laying it out on the table, pushing odd bits of tableware out of the way as he does so


    13. Cosmicblasto rode fast, pushing the pedals and when he reached


    14. She stirs, pushing back into my warmth, my mould,


    15. "This one was taken in week Kadezak of last year," he said, pushing the next plate into the projector


    16. ‘Go, Lintze!’ Joris said, pushing me into the safety of the trees


    17. Try to increase the stretch of your spine by pushing your toes away from your head as far as you can


    18. The others wasted no time in pushing on ahead, leaving us quite alone


    19. Towards the end of the village, sat a grove of windmills, their blades pushing at an endless sky but the highest point was the tower of a church or basilica and close to that waved the noble blue and white national flag of Greece - a part of the nation, yet apart from the nation


    20. By nine o’clock Cyberia had nearly sold out her stock and was looking forward to the little luxury that might be afforded by way of a bacon butty and a polystyrene mug of tea, when her husband arrived pushing an old pram full of soiled tee-shirts and builders’ low slung jeans

    21. On Saturday and Sunday mornings for the rest of that summer you would have found Cyberia pushing shopping trolleys full of used clothing in the direction of car boot sales full of eager, budget priced consumers


    22. ’ He said, pushing open a door


    23. Once more the evening lifted and it wasn't long before enchantment came again, pushing away the sourness of the afternoon and for a moment I felt there was only me and Alessandra in the room


    24. Alessandra tried the key and we could turn the door handle and hear the latch lift and listen to the tumblers but even with all our pushing and pulling it still wouldn't budge


    25. On Pani's island I'd grown used to pushing my way forward in crowds, and knew how much tolerance I was allowed in heated argument


    26. There was pushing and pulling and as we swung around he cried out and fell to the floor


    27. 'Don't worry boss, she is with us,' was all he said, pushing open the door


    28. The Princess looked confident pushing through the water making a line for the south but then, to my confusion and astonishment, after a few minutes I saw her begin to slow and come about in a steady wide circle


    29. she could feel the spirit of her departed mother pushing her towards


    30. the car, pushing her towards a better life of plenty and comfort

    31. Lt Plummer kept pushing buttons trying to get a better view of the area ahead; but he was having no luck


    32. “Give it a rest Rytal, you’re pushing too hard,” shouted an exasperated Lytru


    33. He knew his friend was right; he had been pushing them too hard


    34. at my back, pushing me in the direction of China


    35. The dog careered back out of the hotel doorway, pushing the


    36. And that just kept going on and on, wherever I walked, whichever way I turned, the same woman pushing the same pram would be walking towards me


    37. They are incapable of pushing out others to pull in their self


    38. people and had to learn to walk wherever that crowd was pushing them


    39. “I’m not that way,” Ava said, pushing her hand away, “and I usually keep it covered in public, especially if there are prowling men around


    40. “You’re pushing it, buster,” she said then retracted it

    41. Ava tried to help by pushing the main hull


    42. I'm trying to be easy on you because we're friends, but you're pushing it


    43. Gently pushing open the door, she peered in … Ozzie was sprawled on the bed, sound asleep


    44. ’ Sheila commented, pushing a soft clod with her boot


    45. ‘Get down there!’ Ozzie said, pushing Chrissie, reluctantly standing at the edge of the crater


    46. She struggled to stand, only to have Sheila launch herself at her, grabbing her and pushing her back onto the mud again


    47. Pushing her back up into an arch and raising Chrissie as she did so, Sheila twisted suddenly, throwing Chrissie off


    48. Pushing through the last branches, he came to a


    49. Enjteen would be pushing carts of soiled linens to the laundry rooms if he had his way


    50. ‘How long before dinner, Chrissie?’ Ozzie asked, pushing one of the doors open and sticking his head through the gap into the kitchen














































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    Synonyms for "pushing"

    push pushing

    "pushing" definitions

    the act of applying force in order to move something away