How To Use Jostle In A Sentence

The tall man jostled him away.
Huge white tents jostle for space with music stages. Times, Sunday Times
A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes.
No sign of Dobson and his goon, but one bloke was stock-still on the pavement, keeping his eyes on us even when jostled. THE TARTAN RINGERS
At malls and huge shopping plazas, you get pushed and jostled.

The symphony begins with an introduction where ideas jostle against and interrupt one another.
He jostled his way through a crowd.
Hordes of journalists jostled for position outside the conference hall.
Billboards advertising assorted Americana jostle for position with US-style shopping malls and brash, brutalist hotels.
What followed was a chaotic period in which Sparta, Thebes, and a renascent Athens jostled for power, with Persia stirring the pot.
As I straightened up I was jostled, very slightly, by Doreen and her companion, hurrying to get past.
She looked properly concerned when he described how the film had been jostled from its place of victory at the eleventh hour. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
White bubbles of froth jostle on the head of my pint of beer.
The pilots tried various procedures to loosen the landing gear -- such as jimmying the control lever back and forth, trying the manual release, and G-moves, a series of steep inclines and declines to jostle it loose. Undefined
A motley collection of ornaments jostled for space on the crowded shelf.
Swarms of tourists jostled through the square.
You're going to be bumped and jostled many times while you wait in line - one of those bumps could be a nimble-fingered thief taking your cash.
The windblown snow, called sastrugi, is exceptionally hard and jostles and tosses the snow machines with every little bump. NYT > Home Page
It would be bumped and jostled by constant compromises, rather than sticking to policies that overall make sense. Times, Sunday Times
Followers of the president jostled for position in front of the TV cameras.
As we came into the arena, we were jostled by fans pushing their way towards the stage.
They also astutely observed the land and people around them as they jostled along.
Such is Mr. Cecchini's cult status, doubtless assisted by Bill Buford's extravagant portrait of the Italian in his book "Heat," that it is a considerable task to enter his modest butcher shop, given the likelihood of having to jostle past German camera crews and crowds from Japan. Dishing on a Classic
The room filled with nurses and doctors and I was jostled back into the hallway.
The unpretentious, butter-hued dining room is calm then - underpopulated, even, compared to the Darwinian bray and jostle of jampacked evenings.
They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
Since poor people cannot afford the high rent prices, they have to jostle in bed-size apartments and partitioned rooms in the cocklofts of aged buildings.
They rowed and niggled years ago, most memorably here in 2005 when they jostled with Olympian petulance. Australian Open 2011: Nalbandian and Hewitt fight dying of the light | Kevin Mitchell
Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
A bank worker cycling home was thrown against a wall and died after two cars "jostled" at speeds up to 60mph along a residential road, the Old Bailey heard today. Evening Standard - Home
I mean -- that you should put down in writing _all_ outgoings, and in such a way as you, or I, might easily reckon them up: I mean, so as to see what _each_ amounts to -- No man's Memory can be trusted in such matters; and I think that _your_ Memory (jostled about, as you say, with many different calls, [_sic_ no close to parenthesis] needs to have _writing_ to refer to. Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"
The scene on the roof is jammed and noisy, as cool twentysomethings jostle for elbow room at the bar or colonize the red podlike cabanas by the pool. L.A. Rising
Theriot was suspended for causing his mount to "jostle Undefined
Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in front.
As we came into the arena, we were jostled by fans pushing their way towards the stage.
Luther's stiessen sich -- "jostled," as Meek renders it. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
Summery acoustic guitars jostle with squirts of digital noise, arcing horns and what sounds like a solo played on a giant kazoo shoved through a fuzz pedal.
On Monday, Cameron leaned across the Despatch Box as he sarcastically offered Brown opposition parliamentary time for part-privatisation of the Post Office, which, it is said, is being "jostled" out of the government's agenda. New Statesman
Cyclists, horse carts, two-wheelers, three-wheelers and loaded lorries all jostled for their bit of space while horns blared and tempers got increasingly frayed.
He makes the duties of our general and particular calling hinder and jostle out one another. The Lord's Prayer
I got jostled, bustled, bundled and grumped for being backward by requiring old-school hard copies. Giles Slade: Electronics Changes Books, Bookstores and Publishing for Christmas 2009
The construction workers wear soft eyes that soak up the morning sun, and the janitors have attentive ears that listen to the jostle of walking mobs.
I was jostled, tugged along as if all these people were a tide.
Better yet, a trawl through catalogues specialising in vintage SF yields plenty of examples of his work from the 1940s and 50s, the last, frantic, days of the true pulps, when stories had to jostle for the reader's attention, and the printed word competed with TV and the movies. Writers on Writing: Credentials
Much of its activity is centred around the riva - the promenade - filled with a jostle of yachts, powerboats and hydrofoils that can ferry you to tiny ports along a coastline dotted with unspoilt beaches and 1,185 islands.
Giovanni visits an amusement park: a ride jostles him violently, but his face remains immobile, stricken, dead.
They jostle and joggle while seated on the “train” and respond to the brakes in the “car.” Mr. Memory : Bev Vincent
An abortive attempt at a psychology degree followed, then he jostled with the idea of becoming a drugs and drink counsellor.
Electrons in conductive steel or cast iron pots placed above the electromagnet are jostled by the rapidly changing magnetism, but they resist and get hot. Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: When Buying a Grill, Understanding the Thermodynamics of Cooking is Crucial
Analysts said they expect domestic mobile operators to see weaker earnings in the quarters to come due to higher marketing costs as carriers jostle for market share in the ultra-fast network segment. KT Corp's Net Profit Rises
The crowd jostled into the new stadium.
Tree-ferns and mosses and a myriad other parasitic forms jostled with gay-coloured fungoid growths for room to live, and the very atmosphere itself seemed to afford clinging space to airy fairy creepers, light and delicate as gem-dust, tremulous with microscopic blooms. Chapter 25
Followers of the president jostled for position in front of the TV cameras.
Hordes of journalists jostled for position outside the conference hall.
No.) all jostle for attention. The Sun
Cargo ships still to this day jostle with rice barges and fragile sampans (an Oriental boat propelled by a sail or oars), whilst porters sweat in the humidity loading the boats.
Huge egos jostle for recognition and precious research grants. Times, Sunday Times
The players were jostled by an angry crowd as they left the field.
Great floes jostled against each other piling up to form miniature icebergs.
As we came into the arena, we were jostled by fans pushing their way towards the stage.
The youths jostled an old lady on the pavement.
They do not jostle each othereach marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks.
Followers of the president jostled for position in front of the TV cameras.
Huge white tents jostle for space with music stages. Times, Sunday Times
Huge egos jostle for recognition and precious research grants. Times, Sunday Times
Followers of the president jostled for position in front of the TV cameras.
Whenever I go to Chester, and a dressed-up madam jostles against me, I shall call her carn-butein. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
When dry, the plant behaves somewhat as follows: when the wind jostles the branches against each other, or when an animal of some kind hits the plant, this movement causes many of these cups to get caught; but the elastic stem comes suddenly back to its place, and in so doing flips a nutlet or more from its mouth one to six feet, somewhat as a boy would flip a pea with a pea-shooter. Seed Dispersal
Peering over the railings, the Venkatramans jostled to catch a glimpse of the earthen lingam at the shadowy heart of the sanctuary.
It's stuffed to bursting with arch-villains, secret societies, weird murderers, femmes fatales, hulking brutes, and little "whatsit" dolls made from human skin and hair--one of which chuckles if jostled or shaken. THE WORLD OF RICHARD SALA, Pt. 2
She rubbed shoulders with Juneau and Wrangel men, and was jostled by wild-eyed Sticks from over the Passes, fierce Chilcats, and CHAPTER 2
I continued to push and jostle for another few stops. Times, Sunday Times
It's a stop-and-go drive with the air-conditioning on full-blast as cars, delivery trucks, buses and motorbikes jostle and honk along narrow roads built in the 1980s, when Bali was still mainly a backpacker and budget destination. Trouble in Paradise
As we came into the arena, we were jostled by fans pushing their way towards the stage.
Two decades before he ever jostled with Du Bois, he was asserting that of course ‘there should be no unmanly cowering or stooping to satisfy unreasonable whims of the Southern white man.’
Probably of more interest are the charming motor-yachts called gulets which jostle for position along the pier, waiting to take tourists to nearby islands, beaches and coves.
Taxis, motorbikes, rickshaws and carts laden high with vegetables jostle for space in the congested main street.
There was no space for dwellers in these shadowed lanes to rush from their houses before our car, when warned by the “choof, choof” of the motor as we rattled over the “agony stones,” that something extraordinary was coming; but mothers shrieked for their offspring, while young girls hailed their friends to the free show; and men, women, and children jostled each other good-naturedly in every window and door as we approached, pouring out in our wake, though seemingly half afraid even then that the dragon might take to charging back upon them. The Car of Destiny
The pressure of such defensive forays into inner-city territory, each homing in acutely at the side of others and being jostled by them, makes for compound ironies which are truly sharpened and banal.
They never left her side all the time she was recuperating and they never bumped or jostled her.
In my perambulations up and down Oxford Street and in the shops no one jostled me, no one got in my way.
The cart rattled, and she had been jostled unmercifully.
The Ottomans were certainly in conflict with Europeans for centuries--they entered the Balkans in the 14th century and they besieged Vienna as recently as 1683; but they certainly did not "jostle" the Crusaders for centuries. Daimnation!: NY Times blames Crusaders--wrongly
Authors of factional pamphlets jostled each other and thrust their wares into passing hands. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
He jostled his way through a crowd.
Hordes of journalists jostled for position outside the conference hall.
The sublime jostled with the ridiculous for attention as Edmonton's Thespians donned their finest plumage to dazzle, bewilder and delight.
In the street markets the aroma of mangos and star-shaped carambola fruit jostles with the pungent smell of fresh seafood. Rio de Janeiro
Photographers jostled and shoved to get a better view of the royal couple.
Still, the differences among the auto makers suggest competing technologies will jostle for prominence.
Yet if those to whom it is, or might be, would take it, -- if those who might give it, in many forms, _would give_, -- who knows what relief and loosening would come to others in the hard jostle and press? The Other Girls
Infants bump and jostle with playmates all day. Times, Sunday Times
The next thing I knew, I was jostled and shoved around by people I could barely even see.
They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
Walking slowly, she was slightly jostled about by the congested crowd of people on the sidewalk.
Messengers who jostle pedestrians on the sidewalk.
A motley collection of ornaments jostled for space on the crowded shelf.
Some of the best views of Acadia are to be had from the sea and Bar Harbor is the place to board a ship for a tour of the off-lying islands, or to whalewatch in a boat regularly jostled by 70 ft long finbacks, humpbacks and minkes.
Occasionally he was jostled by an elbow, but he just ignored them and kept going.
Luxury cars jostle with bicycles and rickshaws at congested intersections.
Not the teeming thousands of ex-first class rail travellers who now jostle each other to grab unnumbered window and aisle seats having paid 30 per cent less than regular airline fares.
Gareth was jostled so violently that he was knocked to the ground by a fully armored knight who had just been snapped aside by Lancelot.
The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train
A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
It’s that kind of cutup technique where you jostle words ’round, and if they land in the right way, they convey something that’s almost like hinting at something. Disquiet » What Is Is
While the majority jostle for a bit more elbow room under their comfy security blanket of togetherness, I find myself left out in the cold with all the other disagreeable old crones.
She stood staring at the lion while students jostled her and pushed their way to their friends.
There is increasing talk of power struggles as potential successors jostle to fill the apparent vacuum. Times, Sunday Times
Afrikaner nationalists jostle alongside anti-apartheid activists. The Times Literary Supplement
Competition will be cut-throat keen as artists jostle for a place in the global spotlight. Times, Sunday Times
We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform
Some Thais wondered why foreign film crews shoot films in the dingiest, most crowded parts of Bangkok where elephants jostle for space with three-wheeler Tuk-Tuk taxis and swarms of street vendors. One Night in Bangkok Can Lead to Quite a 'Hangover' for Thailand
To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy.
A motley collection of ornaments jostled for space on the crowded shelf.
The students were kind of jostled around on the bus," Hale said. Ajc.com - News
They booed and jostled him and only the expertise of the Special Branch ensured he got inside unscathed.
Two vibrating motors deliver all the bumps and jostles you'd expect, and it's even got rubberized grips to help keep you from dropping it when you get excited.
Mirror makers, picture framers, artists, cutlers, wig-makers, glass sellers, haberdashers and tailors all jostled for business alongside numerous coffee houses and taverns.
A melee of players pushed and jostled in front of the main stand. The Sun
I was blown away - masses of dogwoods with striking blood red stems jostled with white-barked birch trees, snakeskin maples and much more.
Once long ago I was in the _Herald_ office with a note to Chaffner the big chief, and I gave him a little word jostle as I passed it over. Michael O'Halloran
She was jostled and shoved by an angry crowd as she left the court.
Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
The black oaks jostle and the mistletoe puts up its mitts to vie for the sweet-throated throstle where the black oaks jostle over a back fence and vie for the sweet-throated throstle, seeming no less tense over a back fence than the chestnuts dishing the dirt, seeming no less tense than so many introverts, than the chestnuts dishing the dirt down by the water cooler. The Best American Poetry 2008
I knew I’d stand in four different spots as the photographers yelled out my name and jostled for the best picture. Unbearable Lightness
It made a perfect backdrop to photograph a huge shoal of bib and pollack, which jostled each other for position.
Grouper, anemonefish and small morays jostled for position in this kaleidoscopic garden of coral, with some brightly coloured nudibranchs and small shrimp adding to the mix.
Mirror makers, picture framers, artists, cutlers, wig-makers, glass sellers, haberdashers and tailors all jostled for business alongside numerous coffee houses and taverns.
Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
They fight and jostle for status and demand things from one another. Times, Sunday Times
An abortive attempt at a psychology degree followed, then he jostled with the idea of becoming a drugs and drink counsellor.
The selves jostle for prominence in these pages: the mono-browed Neanderthal shoulders aside axe-wielding Homo sapiens; the neurasthenic intellectual trips up the bedaubed aborigine. Excerpt: Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Treasury yields, which move inversely to prices, climbed Friday as market participants began to jostle to get the new notes next week at a better price. Treasury Returns to Auction Block
If one of the women entered the bakeshop where customers jostled for cakes and streusel, the crowd quieted, fearing the other would follow. Goodnight Dogs
In ‘The Radish,’ a trip through a supermarket produce aisle brings about a strange turn of events in which the narrator, after being ‘jostled’ and ‘rammed’ by other shoppers, is separated from his cart and encounters ‘a man dressed in lederhosen and an alpine hat.’
We laughed and jested lightly enough, as about us jostled the merry throng; but under our jesting was the deep earnestness of man and woman well advanced across the threshold of love and yet not too sure each of the other. Chapter 11
A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
At the solar surface, convective motions of heated gases jostle the magnetic field line.
Two of them jostle in the air and come down twisted and asprawl. Underworld
Dozens jostled with two police officers standing guard to have their pictures taken with literary celebrity, known endearingly as "Gabo," and to have books autographed. March 2007
An assassin grimly carries his mission through the jostle of a carnival.
And they are seriously open to being "jostled" and influenced by strong women. Professors of Walking
They jam the roads, stop and start on bridges, pour hydrocarbons into the air and jostle for bus seats, all in a mad dash to and from offices.
A far-reaching partnership with SAIC is a central part of GM's strategy to manage business in China, where conditions are increasingly challenging as global auto makers and local manufacturers jostle for market share and must contend with government regulation. GM Deepens China Auto Alliance
She was jostled with every step she took and was sure she was bruised from the larger and faster beings traveling down the walkways.
Shelley was hard-pressed to keep up as she was jostled with each step by dancing maniacs who didn't seem to care who they hit.
There is increasing talk of power struggles as potential successors jostle to fill the apparent vacuum. Times, Sunday Times
She was jostled and shoved by an angry crowd as she left the court.
Rival groups jostled for space and traded insults, but there were no arrests.
Swarms of tourists jostled through the square.
Hordes of journalists jostled for position outside the conference hall.
No.) all jostle for attention. The Sun
He jostles with them, has a little fun, banters.
For example, historians of the boulevard theater have seen the elite jostle plebeians.
It was the same man who had jostled her repeatedly during a bumpy ride on the Lexington Avenue Express subway.
Now they find themselves caught in the middle as America and Iran jostle for regional dominance.
Everyone scrambled and jostled for a vantage point to watch the creature investigate the berley, which led it here.
We laughed and jested lightly enough, as about us jostled the merry throng; but under our jesting was the deep earnestness of man and woman well advanced across the threshold of love and yet not too sure each of the other. Chapter 11
The resulting jostle of competing versions marks him more than any other poet, even Auden.
You can't be bothered to jostle for a shard of mirror space in which to reapply your lippy, and even if you decide to fight your way through to the chalk-face you find the lighting is so dim that you end up glossing your chin.
As we drove along the corniche towards the Sonesta St George hotel, my heart lurched in time with each jolt as cars and battered open vans serving as local buses jostled horse-drawn carriages, donkeys and suicidal pedestrians off the road.
This sparked outrage among some of the other marchers who jostled with the cordon of officers who had hemmed them in.
I continued to push and jostle for another few stops. Times, Sunday Times
The Niigata of the Government, with its signs of progress in a western direction, is quite unattractive-looking as compared with the genuine Japanese Niigata, which is the neatest, cleanest, and most comfortable-looking town I have yet seen, and altogether free from the jostlement of a foreign settlement. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Formal gardens and historic buildings jostle for attention with woodland. Times, Sunday Times
Scarlet and russet and violet and blue and pink and orange jostled and quarrelled in the beds outside. SANDS OF TIME
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
We had returned nearly to the hotel in this undignified manner, the throng of persecutors gathering strength as we entered the streets, till we were completely surrounded -- those in front walking backwards, and stopping every now and then suddenly, that we might be jostled against by those who were thronging behind, all bellowing the pandemoniacal chorus, without words and still less tune. Sea-Gift. A Novel.
Brightly coloured sarapes, embroidered blouses, leather, tin work and pottery jostle for the buyers' attention next to bags of beans of all kinds and exotic vegetables including cacti.
And even though she was mobbed and jostled, she maintained her cool.
Street entertainers, dressed as snowmen and aliens and balanced on stilts, were pushed and jostled by the youngsters, who sprayed them with foam.
A melee of players pushed and jostled in front of the main stand. The Sun
A melting pot of nationalities jostle for prime parking spots for their cars and caravanettes.
Such critics had come to Washington, had made their "dicker," danced at the hotel hops, and been jostled on the Avenue. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
That brings traffic problems as drivers jostle for spaces or park thoughtlessly blocking entrances, bus stops and the approaches to pedestrian crossings.
People literally jostled for viewing positions and smokers polluted the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
In a competitive market where hundreds of brand names jostle for attention, several are emerging as the next big thing.
The bonuses paid to senior executives at RBS and Lloyds, which the government bailed out during the credit crisis, have become a totemic issue as the U.K.'s main political parties jostle to show which of them has the fairest economic policies. U.K. Caps Part-State Bank Bonuses
The supporting cast of cameramen, photographers and the people who hold the fluffy sound booms, made it impossible to move, as they jostled for the best positions.
Cyclists, horse carts, two-wheelers, three-wheelers and loaded lorries all jostled for their bit of space while horns blared and tempers got increasingly frayed.
The sailors I know call a jostled box of wet cats “a fine night out.” I Has a Karma « Whatever
In India, tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims jostled to take holy baths in the sacred River Ganges after performing special prayers for ancestors during the eclipse.
Outwardly she is ice cool, sitting glassy-eyed in press conferences while reporters jostle to ask questions about her father.
However, it was the area south of the Singapore River, the area where bumboats congregated and jostled for berthing space, that saw the most activity.
People literally jostled for viewing positions and smokers polluted the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
Analysts say that while investment banks would likely happily jostle to handle any major government selling of shares, without law changes, the amount that could be freed up would be limited. Japan Considers Selling State Firms to Fund Rebuilding
When more spectrum needed for one use, inevitably various interests will throw a few elbows as they jostle for precious real estate. Jonathan Spalter: The Spectrum Shot Clock
I wasn't too keen today, didn't feel like being jostled in the market-day crowd, so I determined to do no more than drop in to the supermarket, avoiding the crush altogether.
As she was jostled, the pain became so intense that she cried out before passing out cold.
Cutting across our path, there was a riot of colour as dahlia anemones jostled for space with dead men's fingers and sea stars.
I went with the throng, jostled alike by velvet and dowlas, by youths with their estates upon their backs and naked fantastically painted savages, and trampling the tobacco with which the greedy citizens had planted the very street. To Have and to Hold
They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
It would be bumped and jostled by constant compromises, rather than sticking to policies that overall make sense. Times, Sunday Times
With the export trade expanding, shippers, bankers and insurance companies also jostled with each other on the trading floor.
The players were jostled by an angry crowd as they left the field.
There is increasing talk of power struggles as potential successors jostle to fill the apparent vacuum. Times, Sunday Times
As a result of this beguiling pluralism, various movements openly jostled for state recognition, critics voraciously debated the most appropriate styles, and party officials established their own cultural fiefdoms.
Lime and lemon flavours jostle for attention alongside a lively effervescence and floral nose.
He was a little annoyed by the fact that his team were raw recruits; they jostled each other and joked about in a way that he found most irritating and unprofessional.
Formal gardens and historic buildings jostle for attention with woodland. Times, Sunday Times

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