How To Use Pushover In A Sentence
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A pushover try scored from a scrum 15 metres out was next to make it 36-10.
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He is a tough negotiator. We did not expect to find him a pushover and he has not been one.
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He's obviously no pushover, but I think he probably needs someone to be the hard man at his side.
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OK, the visitors are no pushovers, as seen from their second placing in the group and the Germans have not been playing well.
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Since the departure of Jean Chrétien, who knew something about politics being a blood sport, the Liberals have become a party of pushovers, gritless Grits.
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Compared to sprawl, an expressway is a pushover.
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But manager Martin Eede knows Folkestone will be no pushovers.
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Far from being a pushover, the Company, angered by repeated border incursions, struck back vigorously by declaring war.
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Besides, the other members of the household are pretty easy to beat: Frederick the unicorn is a thinker, not a doer; Snuffles is all claws and teeth, but he's out instantly if you get him in a "sleeper" hold; and Phenny the Phoenix became a pushover after we instituted the "No Spontaneously Combusting Your Opponent" rule.
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Punters swapped pints for pushovers to raise more than £1, 400 for the Royal British Legion Steve Roberts Challenge.
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None of them is remotely like a pushover.
The Sun
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It also shows how exciting the whole tournament is, and Italy are no pushovers now.
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This at first appears to be a forgotten reference to the round-heeled shoes worn by floozies in some historical period though, in fact having round heels just means she's more likely to fall over on her back: to be, literally, a pushover.
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Stockport started the second half stronger and were rewarded with a pushover try which was converted from underneath the posts to make the score 7-12.
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Determined to persuade shareholders that she was no pushover, she turned to her Scottish ancestry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost on the stroke of half-time the home side took the lead with a pushover try which was superbly converted.
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It's tempting to dismiss them altogether as pushovers, but I also sympathize with their outsider pathos.
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Equally, we know that St Mirren will be no pushovers.
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They missed chances, they clearly should have had a penalty try from a pushover, but that was that.
Times, Sunday Times
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England went for the pushover try to kill the game.
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Bristol hadn't been defeated in their previous three away matches, so they were never going to be pushovers.
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Now, this lady -- who is extremely savvy and is hardly a pushover -- happens to be a locavore convert, and she and her husband are going far out of their way to buy local, grass-fed meats, and chickens who eat worms, and vegetables that aren't sprayed with defoliant derivatives.
Elissa Altman: The Real L Word
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A job in a fish factory proves to be no pushover, either.
The Sun
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They missed chances, they clearly should have had a penalty try from a pushover, but that was that.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think we would have scored a pushover try had there not been penalties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lucia observed that he was compliant to the point of being a pushover.
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The standard line, true or not, is that grand juries are such pushovers that a good DA can get an indictment against a ham sandwich.
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The examination was a pushover ; I'm sure of all the answers.
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For certain, this match against Scotland is not a pushover despite the fact that they have yet to win a match in the tournament.
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Possessed of many virtues, in most ways a grown-up, she is soft at the center, a pushover.
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His road-toughened companions, a fox and caracal, didn't look like pushovers themselves.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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Cook, however, reckons the Panthers will be no pushovers.
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Bayonne managed a consolation of sorts with a try from a pushover from the lineout.
Times, Sunday Times
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This little package of dense black fur is fearless but unaggressive, happy to please but not a pushover, a tad stubborn but a complete lovebug.
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No climate of mutual respect will be fostered if the Federation is nothing more than a pushover ready to do the administration's bidding whenever asked.
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It doesn't help that she looks like a complete pushover, her heart-shaped face, blue eyes and perfect Cupid's-bow mouth radiating sweetness and light.
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However, they were rewarded soon after as Brook touched down a pushover from ten metres.
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The interview was an absolute pushover.
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For such a large and powerfully built man, Micah was a bit of a pushover.
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His father was an outgoing, large and expansive man while his mother was a polite, passive person who Tom describes as a pushover.
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We had set off without lunch, so we were pushovers.
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Clark knew that UVic would be anything but pushovers.
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‘The guys know they're no pushovers, but I knew that already, because Scotland always seemed to beat Ireland,’ Joyce confirms.
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They aren't the best team in the league, but they're no pushover , either.
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It was a pity one could not invade without giving advance warnings and following the rules: it would be a pushover.
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And Nigeria will be no pushovers either, but if you were to talk to the two players in the dressing room they feel that they'll make it through.
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Yet Jacques Santini's side, coming off a 1-0 victory in Istanbul, are unlikely to be pushovers.
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By which we ought to mean, the country will be in the hands of a puppet government, a government of quislings and collaborators, a government of pullovers and pushovers.
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Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
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Just because you do nice things for people doesn't mean you have to be some kind of wussy pushover.
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A job in a fish factory proves to be no pushover, either.
The Sun
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Her cute, pixie looks will fool many into believing Veronica is a pushover.
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Maybe they thought we were some hicks from the sticks, and were a wee bit complacent, but we have demonstrated since then that we are nobody's pushovers.
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Though they have slipped back in recent years the girls from Model County are far from pushovers and should not be taken for granted.
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He is a tough negotiator. We did not expect to find him a pushover and he has not been one.
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Bayonne managed a consolation of sorts with a try from a pushover from the lineout.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faced with his daughter's mournful eyes, he was a pushover.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think we would have scored a pushover try had there not been penalties.
Times, Sunday Times
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So no changes from Greg Downs tomorrow, and United need to shake up their home form because Doncaster are no pushovers.
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But there are no pushovers and every team will raise their game when they play us, so we have to make sure we are ready for that.
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Callow wants to "deconstruct" the Welles story, see the real man who made himself a myth in cahoots with a pushover press.
Citizen Welles
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He is a tough negotiator. We did not expect to find him a pushover and he has not been one.
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He is a virtuous, moral man with dignity and strength, not the mild-mannered pushover of decades past.
