How To Use Shove In A Sentence

So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Minutes after they escaped, there was a fire flashover and the whole building went up in flames.
By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
Big steamshovels dug up the ore and loaded it onto the cars and brought it into what they called the washer, where it was washed. Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, February 3, 1976. Interview G-0040-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
I ended up walking on the unshovelled areas in order to have a more secure footing.
Even pieces of rags were shoved into the gaps peeping through the corners of its locked door.
Shove your suitcase under the bed.
Carpenter scrambled out of the pocket, pulled up at the line of scrimmage and shoveled the ball to Thompson, who outleaped two defenders under the goal post. USATODAY.com
With that retort, Will shoved Mark into a table, but Mark countered, ducking from a roundhouse swing and taking Will's legs out from underneath him.
But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results. The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
Black paid twenty-six dollars for the brass andirons, stamped ‘John Molineux / Boston,’ and the matching, but unstamped, shovel and tongs.
Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
The number of self-proclaimed experts on the internet only proves the point that one should take advice with a "shovelful" of salt. A Shovelful of Salt, Part II: Trigger Weight and Gun Safety
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.
What I want to know is who was the so called verger who gave you the shove. The Diocese of Niagara is employing bouncers « Anglican Samizdat
When the shovelers come by, they shovel the bread, rats and spoiled meat into the sausage vats.
Back in the 1870s, when the project began, the 480-foot-long pit was dug with shovels, picks, burros, and a whole lot of muscle.
He did neither, but sat down hard when she shoved at his shoulders. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
To get first gear you had to go into second gear first and then shove it forwards hard. Times, Sunday Times
Just then, an ettin shoved a heavy sledge into view. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
After some judicious pruning, trim the rootball to size with your shovel and tilt the tree into the hole.
Since everybody is safely aboard, we can shove off.
When he saw me, he leaned on his shovel until I was near enough to shake hands.
An original touch, however, is the shovel-grip handbrake, which saves space as well as feeling quite butch.
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.
From the time a fire first breaks out to flashover, when everything catches on fire, can take as little as three minutes.
Everybody in the place, even the pick and shovel man at the end of a drift, consults his book.
Yesterday we got not a nudge but a forceful shove from a man who is supremely confident in his bully pulpit. Times, Sunday Times
A wheelbarrow pusher can complete a return journey of 30 m in each direction whilst a shoveller is filling a 50-litre barrow. 1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance
Billy slapped his knee and guffawed, and he began choking on his pretzel he had shoveled into his mouth. Kari Gremore: An All-American Tea Party
The soldier tried to shove past the innkeeper, but to no avail.
The quote was recorded six months before Dall was shoved aside by Ranieri to be left twisting in the wind by Gutfreund.
Exhausted, and at a moment of massive emotional import, unique and unrepeatable, Martin Johnson gets a microphone shoved in his face and is asked for his reaction.
You can also toss nonanimal food waste on the pile, but you will need to turn it more frequently with a shovel, pitchfork, or specialized tool to prevent odors that will attract vermin—and annoy you and the neighbors. Tip of the day: Compost your leaves this fall
Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
A lot of Obama people say, when you say that is, they didn't have what they call shovel-ready projects. CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2009
‘You don't look so bad yourself’ I said while giving him a playful shove on the shoulder.
If there's no one at home, just shove the letter under the door.
[ Jefferies'Voice ] because you want to shove your rotten cock up her juicy ass.
Is this the digital equivalent of shovel-ready? Times, Sunday Times
Leave the oceans' bluefin tunas and billfish and sea turtles alone, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain - as he shovels redfish into the boiler.
One way to prevent flashover is to add some conductivity to the surface of the insulator, so charge can bleed away before it builds up.
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.
I had to grin, she looked kind of cute with red cheeks, shoveling food in her mouth while hugging herself and desperately trying to avoid my gaze.
This method a simple understanding of the radiation processes in compartment fires such flashover.
These are long-term investments and they are shovel-ready.
When push comes to shove, even those who recognize the political roots of drug testing are not inclined to take a stand.
Up here in Northern Illinois it has to be shoveled from the barns with regularity. Think Progress » FLASHBACK: McCain Said Of Himself And Palin, ‘What Do You Expect Of Two Mavericks?’
She shoved her into the front row before moving to stand in the doorway of the gazebo.
When I see it, the lightness I feel is shoved aside and a gnarl of nerves wind in my stomach. The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
He quickly snatched the collar of Steven's shirt and shoved him hard against the wall.
But it will burn, and that is what our fuel truck did, stubbornly and with thick billows of oily black smoke that would have prevented us from smothering the blaze with sand even if we had not been too tired to lift our shovels.
Moreover it is that consuming hatred, that ability to have any crap shoveled down your throat and you gulp it like pablum, that is dividing this country. "What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House..."
You can also toss nonanimal food waste on the pile, but you will need to turn it more frequently with a shovel, pitchfork, or specialized tool to prevent odors that will attract vermin — and annoy you and the neighbors. Tip of the day: Compost your leaves this fall
Everyone is, in fact, liberal, but the annoying people who want to shove their PETA garbage down your throat only come out once every few weeks and are easy to avoid.
Cranes and bulldozers were brought in to clear the streets while 18 teams of rescue workers dug with pickaxes and shovels.
You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair.
Okay, we lost grandma to cancer because the Blue Cross was more of a double-cross when they told us she'd cost them enough and they weren't paying more, but at least Barack Husein Obama didn't make her shovel-ready. Brian Ross: The Do-It-Yourself Deprogrammers Guide to Fox News Zombies
Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips.
He grinned down at her and walked by her giving her a shove making her stumble.
And since Dolly, formerly Shovehalfpenny, also had clothes made by Irena, might there not be news of Felix?
There you are — like a knife through butter,'said the demonstrator as the powered shovel swung back with its load.
The digger lifted its feet and reversed in a wide arc and dropped the hydraulic shovel. BLOOD IS DIRT
He answered by showing me the little pail and shovel he had fetched. WEB OF DREAMS
When push came to shove, I stuck up for him.
Grandma is up about then and is found sweeping up the street in front of the family home picking up the beer cans and shoveling away the cinders left from the fires. OK! Now that I know . . . . . .
A slightly bigger sister snuck up on him and shoved him with a punch towards his intended victim.
ABIGAIL: I have once or twice played the shovelboard. The Crucible
I shove the book back into my bag and stare into space for a while.
Oh, shove it in me, way up!
Workers then parade the boars in front of sows and ogle and fondle sows 'genitals to see which pigs are "ready" to have a tube of pig semen shoved into them. Bruce Friedrich: Does Eating Meat Support Bestiality?
The second I told him to eat, he threw himself into a chair and began shoveling the food into his mouth.
For her father's comfort, noting the sad wistful eyes that watched her coming in and going out, she had resigned herself to spend long melancholy hours within doors, reading aloud till Sir John fell asleep, playing backgammon -- a game she detested worse even than shove-halfpenny, which latter primitive game they played sometimes on the shovel-board in the hall. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
He shouted, recovering quickly from her shove and pushing her back equally hard.
A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life.
While a technician shovels pomace into the small tractor-powered sheller, the pits are separated from the moist mash, which is then placed in an ordinary cement mixer.
Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a handbarrow with a rope and a couple of shovels on it. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
When writing, she is totally absorbed in the book and on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion, her sons returned from school ravenous to find she had shoved a pair of muddy shoes in the oven for their tea! Diana Wynne Jones biography
A gang of workmen were shovelling rubble onto a truck.
An analyst: It is local government's job to construct welfare housing. The government shouldn't shove the job off onto real estate developers.
These may include wood for building, sandboxes, watering cans, shovels, and pots for playing outdoors; dolls made of natural fibers and toys of wood and cloth for indoors.
She was being woken with a soft shove on her shoulder.
Restored unused shovelhead to Hallowbrook and alternate Tong model. WorthPlaying.com - All about games!
Sensible Stella faltered and the long-buried Romantic Stella shoved her out of the way like a shopaholic on sale day. JUST BETWEEN US
But man, hacking firelines with Mcleod and dozer, shovel and pulaski, took some assimilating. Firestorm
The door wouldn't open no matter how hard she shoved.
When the other kid made to shove past Dustin, I stuck my foot into the aisle and sent him flying.
A beechen implement, resembling somewhat our potato masher, and called the "brayer," was used to manipulate the ink as it lay on the table; an iron shovel, known as the "slicer," being used to portion out from the mass of ink such quantities as were needed from time to time for the brayer. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
The doctor harumped and shoved his hat on.
Lesser fly-on-the-wall programmes would have ladled the pathos on with a shovel but there's an unfussy, understated humanity here. TV highlights 29/06/2011: Killer Tigers | Timeshift: Hotel Deluxe | Finding Amelia | The Apprentice | Afghanistan: The Battle For Helmand | 24 Hours in A&E
Their body warmth heated the upper floor where their humans lived and, if the snows of winter and the snow-drifts off the roofs piled up very high, the farmers could still shovel their way down to their snow-bound herds.
hdhouse saidMoreover it is that consuming hatred, that ability to have any crap shoveled down your throat and you gulp it like pablum, that is dividing this country. "What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House..."
Shove up mate, there's no room to sit down here.
It's what I call the shovel policy - everything I have, I give it to you for free on the Web site and charge you for print. Mr. Magazine
She prays to the gods and recounts her deeds to them alleging that she dies unavenged as she shoves the sword in her body.
He shoved his lean, hawklike face into the very center of the slimy, squirming mass, and with his several ancient fangs bit into the heart and the life of the matter. The Water Baby
Poker Forums Poker Discussion Supertuesday close spot: Is this a correct shove or is it spewy? PocketFives
The bleeding had stopped once he'd shoved his bandanna under the shirt, against the wound.
But when push came to shove and the whining became not only endless but destructive, I could support neither the decision he made nor the way he made it -- self-righteously, thoughtlessly and hatefully. Toxic Venting: When to Stop Listening
Without a thank you, Daisy Raymond shoved the money into the register drawer. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
The children laughed and catcalled and pushed and shoved as they hurried toward the exits.
However, they were rewarded soon after as Brook touched down a pushover from ten metres.
She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
She disregarded the laws governing tavern hours, and stayed open late into the night, allowing her customers, some only in their teens, to drink and play the forbidden game of shovelboard, carousing loudly enough to disturb the neighbors' sleep. History of American Women
With each shovel of dirt lifted up to expose the layer beneath, he's found the markers leading the way to understanding who he was, who he became and who he is meant to be.
I shove the box to the side and we both scooch over to sit next to it.
He conducted the matter in his pyjamas, and wanted to shove Hauptmann Horn in the guardhouse for the night.
I peer suspiciously at my co-workers lunches to see what they’re shoveling in there that comes out so malodorously. The Bog Report « XUP
The airman grabbed Ian by the jacket and shoved him against the back wall of the elevator and banged Ian's head against the imitation woodgrain panelling.
It would just sit there, ruffle its clipped wing feathers and continue its neurotic seed shovelling and beak swinging.
Even when promptly gutted, cleaned, cut into steaks or fillets and then shoved into ice, kingfish is best eaten the day it is caught.
Don't shove the job off onto others.
Make sure you have snowmelt and a snow shovel on hand.
Given the growing number of failing establishments that were downsizing their labor forces, the timing was not right to shove a wage increase (even if a small one) down the throat of business.
It would probably take them a week to be able to shovel out a snowplow so it can plow the main roads, never mind the secondary streets.
But with the frenzy of sequels, prequels, remakes and biopics being shovelled out by Hollywood, it comes as no surprise that relying on an existing popular story is the path of least resistance.
In the early days there was nothing else for it but to cut the snow into blocks using shovels and then throw it over the wall.
The round Indian woman beamed her approval then shoved me into the back of the minivan.
The fireman had to keep shoveling coal into the furnace which generated the steam to propel the train.
The interview was an absolute pushover.
Section 232 requires workers to wear flame resistant outerwear if they could be exposed to a flash fire or electrical equipment flashover.
The notion of failure ( "the sand in the oyster that isn't a pearl", as he wrote in Anyone Can Whistle) was quickly incorporated as a theme, along with ambivalence, mild irritation, petulance and panic - states and sentiments that traditional musicals shove aside for the bigger, blowsier ones. Culture | guardian.co.uk
Before flashover occurs, a person in a burning room may crawl to safety along the floor.
The owner of the shovel grunted and wrenched another mound of dirt out of the ground.
Larry Shover, 64, a dairy farmer from Delhi, had been drawn to Mr. Gingrich because he excelled during the debates. Rivals Jockey to Overtake Slowing Gingrich
All she needed to do was dump a shovelful of dirt into the flat, pick it up and shake it over the row.
Nestled in the hills of California's San Joaquin Valley, a tranquil pond invites flocks of ruddy ducks, pintails, and shovelers to feed at its shores.
It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like. Isabelle
Had my dad been a pothunter, I would have been one too, happily booting a shovel into the ground right next to him. NPR Topics: News
The Eladeldi had dragged her from the steps into an alley, shoved her against a wall and searched her.
An arm wriggled under one of his knees, and after a bit of work, she shoved it free and raised it to grab a hunk of hair, dragging at his head.
Now, I shove and elbow and do karate moves and eye gouges just to get down the hallway.
Instead of turning over a ceremonial shovel, officials in Seattle will break a pinata Thursday to mark the start of construction for a new South Park Bridge. The Seattle Times
The shoveller ducks are there, too fishing up with broad, flat beaks little crabs and such creatures as are in the mud, straining out mud and water, but swallowing the rest. Stories of California
However, I fear they are retreating, and minority indulgences such as cribbage are going the same way as dominoes, shove ha'penny, bar billiards, and the very jolly, unpretentious boozers in which they used to be played day and night. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
For such a large and powerfully built man, Micah was a bit of a pushover.
Gold-painted shovels were handed out, and on Mr. Muckle's signal all the dignitaries smiled, leaned over, and dug up a scoopful of sand. Hoot
The chunky boy asked with a loud bark of a laugh before he shoved Sammy's shoulder hard enough that she stumbled back a step and further into the crates.
With a strong shove, they were pushed away from the dock and out into the murky waters.
Give the door a good shove.
Just wait your turn - there's no need to shove.
During the spring and fall migration periods, extensive use is made of the area by most waterfowl in the mid-Atlantic region, including Canada geese, greenwinged teal, bluewinged teal, gadwall, pintail, wigeon and shoveler. Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve
Or for about US$32, you can wade in a tank with friendly shovelnose rays, blue-spotted stingrays and other marine creatures. Finding Nemo
If this does not work, but results in sternway, shove the tiller clear over to the opposite side.
I collected my pack of cigarettes from the crate, shoved them in my back pocket and hoisted the garbage bag over my shoulder.
When push comes to shove, his mindset is the same. Times, Sunday Times
A child stands before the ball, and then a park guide gives it a shove from a specific angle, so that it comes careering back at the child's face only to stop just in front of it. 04.04
It needles you, it shoves, it pokes you in the side - not hard, but hard enough to make you yelp.
Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
Voters are telling the Congress to shove its new tax plan.
When it shoves its tubelike mouthparts into a plant to suck sap from the xylem, the insect may transmit a deadly plant bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, in its saliva.
When dusk had come, Wade put his shovel aside and moved down the slope to the dock.
The half-moon lit the roof of its cab, the shovel, and part of the jointed arm that controlled it. A THIEF OF TIME
Such was the attempt to control the lives of the working class, that in 1542 even shuffleboard was banned - a game which we now call shove half-penny.
He shoved some paper into her hands and she ran her eyes over it, quickly.
But the dust jacket of an old edition says pointedly that the book is “the story of a faithful Irish steam-shovel artist and his steam shovel — the beguiling Mary Anne.” 2007 July « One-Minute Book Reviews
Then she stood and shoved her drunken father with all the strength she could manage.
It would be preposterous to shovel coal with a teaspoon.
If she asks me to work over the weekend I'll tell her to shove it up her ass!
For days together, the trenches remain open, getting deeper and wider every night as groups of workers go about their task with hammers, pick axes, crowbars and shovels.
[ Jefferies'Voice ] because you want to shove your rotten cock up her juicy ass.
It's a rare occasion that I can consciously recall getting up, lugging my bod into the shower, shoveling some toast in my cakehole and lumbering out the door.
If push comes to shove, you can always sell the car.
So I thought, a little push, a little shove, a little something extra to shake it loose.
Would you give me a hand shovelling the snow away from the garage door?
His team used chain saws, disc cutters, picks, shovels and wood to shore up the tunnel before reaching the victim, who had been lying on a bed in a multi-storey building for five days.
The shortnosed batfish is also odd looking, and it uses its nose as a shovel and a fishing lure: EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Rosy-Lipped Batfish
The snow was piled high except on the sidewalks, where it had been neatly shoveled away by the mufflered Winnebago sons and fathers. Fanny Herself
Forsaking the books, it was pick and shovel for a year of manual labouring for the young David.
He shoved her towards the car.
So Newt Gingrich can campaign on family values while abandoning a succession of wives for more nubile alternatives; Bill Clinton's extra-mural activities have to be shoved under the carpet in a celebrated TV interview (with his wife loyally at his side) before he can resuscitate his endangered candidacy in 1992. Shashi Tharoor: Importance of appearing to be earnest
There were picks, shovels, knives, swords and axes.
After propping the shovel against the side of the building, I stamped the snow off my shoes and stepped into the warmth of the office, closing the door against the cold.
I stood outside my small office on the corner of Union and Crescent Streets, shoveling the snow off the walkway.
He shoved the nose down to sixty degrees and was rewarded with a perfect view of the ruined Hurricane.
Outside Mr. Vilna's office sits a steam-shovel -- donated by Taiwan -- that could restore the irrigation canals. Food Crisis Forces New Look at Farming
The plumages of hand-reared mallards, baldpates, blue-winged teal, shovellers and ring-necked ducks develop more slowly although pintails, redheads and canvasbacks appear similar.
Anyhoo, all three of these migrations were of what might be called the Mongoloid racial type, or more properly were all sinodonts, since the characteristics of the Mongoloid type were still in their incipient stage, but sinodonty (a dentition pattern characterized by the presence of shovel-shaped incisors*, which evolved in Central and primarily East Asia) was a trait held in common among all members of the pre-Mongoloid race then, and the Mongoloid race today. What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant
I'm told I also need a shovel, cat litter, energy bars, extra water, wool socks, and hand warmers.
A good number of duck species such as dabchicks, garganey, pin-tailed, lesser whistling teal and shovellers arrive at the Appalangulam tank located inside the Guindy National Park.
No ten thousand snow shovels were ever sent out to Panama, as later charged–only a thousand shovels that looked like snow shovels but were in fact specially designed for scooping the ash out of steam-shovel boilers, a use for which they were ideally suited. The Path Between the Seas
If push comes to shove, you can always sell the car.
Well then he struts, stands on tiptoes, bustles, and bestirs his stumps, shoves and makes way, and with much ado clambers up a sycamore. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
She shoved back the wrap his cowl ended in and found a dagger and an empty sheath strapped to his waist.
He opened his eyes to see the earthmover shove a full scoop over the edge. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
categories: either "nuisance", where there are minor problems, but people get around town just fine, or the storm is "plowable" - as the word implies, enough to shovel and plow. StarTribune.com rss feed
She suddenly felt a thick wad of paper towels shoved into her hand.
The fact is that no one believes these threats and no one takes a blind bit of notice because they all know that when push comes to shove the maker of the threat wants to be seen as being acceptably more communautaire than he or she is a staunch defender of British Independence. Archive 2007-09-02
Richard had just finished work and was with a colleague in the car park when a group of unmasked, armed men shoved them into a car, which sped off.
I leaned in and gave her a quick smack on the cheek as she shoved me away.
She shoved the supplies at him and pointed at the tent flap.
I didn't want to barge into his home like this and shove two girls down his throat, but I had no other choice.
As soon as they were up we shoveled snow over the flaps, placed rocks on top, and then one person crawled inside to get the cooking gear set up.
The usual set-up of tables was gone, leaving the area blank; the tables were folded up and shoved to the various walls.
The shovelers and pintails have reached the northern plains and have spread through much of Alaska.
She glared at him and shoved past him, throwing open the door to the women's restroom.
I didn't know my way around very well, and was rummaging through the toolshed one morning looking for a shovel.
The sudden intake of air with the heat of the cigarette caused a flashover and he was trapped as flames and smoke engulfed the vehicle.

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