How To Use Thrust In A Sentence

But the main thrust of correspondence focused on the future of a particular medical practice.
But it was the introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 that really thrust her into the public's consciousness, especially as she herself was a non-driver.
The main thrust of my irritation comes from the fact that this was marketed in Previews as the issue that would tell us what Noh-Varr has been doing. Review: Dark Avengers Annual #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Along the Leathad Riabhach gully, the Ben More Thrust steepens into a subvertical fault with gneiss to the NE and quartzite to the SW.
As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.

This thrust, though, is generally reckoned to grant sufficient dynamic counterplay. Times, Sunday Times
The organisation's shield consisted of a male forearm whose fist was thrusting the point of a spear into the jaws of a wolf. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
The heat touched off the Hi-Thrust which burst in a needle flame from the petcock. The Stars My Destination
Stay, look at this, "continued he, replying by a thrust in" seconde "to a straight thrust;" if I had lunged, I should have spitted you like a lark. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental
The rocks are asymmetrically folded and overthrust to the west, with chaotic units and abundant evidence for coeval soft-sediment deformation.
The thrust of the campaign is to ensure that coming generations too experience Sabarimala just like their forefathers did.
The road was uneven, full of random stones and broken asphalt, thrusting themselves in all directions.
The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
England will be thrust straight on to a competitive footing. Times, Sunday Times
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
The vessel could be manoeuvred with its bow thrusters to bring the stern ramp very close to the two men to whom life belts and/or ropes were thrown.
Torque transfer is a function of the internal gearing, which generates frictional resistance to differentiation through the axial and radial thrust forces of the gears in the differential.
You can just see the mental process by which they work out how many squat thrusts it will take to work off each pillow of dough. Times, Sunday Times
A blue tractor beam en-gulfed the runabout and thrust it away from the debris. Demons Of Air And Darkness
That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom. Chapter 13
She grasped the hilt of her sword and thrust it at the stones, wedged it between the planks on the door.
Melanie is thrust into an unfamiliar family full of secrets, where Uncle Phillip pulls the strings, creating a tyrannical hold over the household.
There were lots of thrusts and gyrations in the class, which makes sense, since they're burlesquers, but I just don't have the coordination, sadly, to shimmy and walk backward at the same time.
She quickly ripped the paper free and thrust it into my hands.
Soon enough, our intrepid reporter hero realizes that, due to some nuclear explosion experimentation, the earth has been thrust out of its orbit and is now spiralling towards the sun.
He paused before delivering a powerful thrust that skewered the water creature beyond healing.
It was only through the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, that, suddenly, she was thrust into the limelight, and became our Queen.
Also curve joining the tangents of each line of thrust, drawn relative to the vessel, is known as the curve of metacentres.
Her chin was thrust forward aggressively.
The northern margin of the melange is marked by a thrust contact with both the Carboniferous sedimentary rocks and extrusive volcanic sequence.
Now, to their amazement, Bush administration officials find themselves thrust through the equivalent of a Star-Trekkian wormhole into an anti-universe where everything that once worked for them seems to work against them …. Think Progress » White House officials seek Bloomin’ Onion of the Far East.
Now they find themselves thrust yet again into an intense triangular relationship: Jimmy the avenger, Sean the truth-seeker and Dave the unfortunate.
He thrust his hand into the stack of chaff up to the elbow without feeling a thing.
The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone). Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
With the other he seized the top of a wooden packing-box, and holding this in front of his chest and abdomen as a Kaffir would hold his pavise, or rawhide shield, to ward off a thrust from an assagai, he walked straight toward his adversary. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
It is many moves before any significance can be attached to this thrust. Times, Sunday Times
It would be a Roman short sword called a gladius, about 27 inches long, 2 and a half inches wide, weighing three pounds, with a tapered point for thrusting and two sharp edges for cutting. Peacemakers:
On the way down it will take images that will help determine its exact location and altitude, and set the timing for the final thruster firings.
The sudden compression of air as the rammer thrust with the fleece could explode the residues of unburnt powder that was caked to the breech walls, so a gunner, wearing a leather thumbstall, pressed his thumb over the vent to stop the airflow. Sharpe's Waterloo
This thrust reflected his deepening disappointment with Western civilization.
According to the dimensional theory, the similitude criteria of lubrication performance in thrust bearing are deduced.
Southwest of the Dornoch Firth, the Sgurr Beag Thrust divides the Moine rocks into two major nappes.
Oborne regrets the 'loss of self restraint' and his intention is to recreate it, or rather to again 'ostracise' and 'thrust beyond the outer margins of debate' those who dare to speak out about the impact of Islam on the British way of life. The British National Party
She then whipped around making a thrusting motion with her hands.
The darling yellow trumpets are thrusting up in fir and birch woods across Scotland for our delight. Times, Sunday Times
Mira was thrust into freedom just as she had been chuted into slavery, or at least that is how she thought of it. The Women’s Room
To give extra thrust, the engine reheat method was used which alights fuel in the jet pipe, giving her the title ‘Rocket’.
This one reminded me of Louise Bagshawe or one of the other British bonkbuster authors - quite European though it's set in LA and New York as well as France and revenge-oriented rather than Phillips' usual football-player types being thrust into situations with quirky heroines. Archive 2009-04-01
He had thrust the wet moccasins down the neck of his shirt, and icy trickles ran down chest and belly, soaking his breechclout. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Thus he became a tacit assenter in wrong-doing, for circumstances thrust this, once in a while, upon the best of our citizens. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
Opposite the fireplace, a bulky dark wood bed was draped in dark blue velvet covers and snowy white fur pelts, its sheets thrust to one side.
He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. Kenilworth
We drew our battle-axes at the same instant, and rushed at each other, but before either had an opportunity to strike, the pipe was thrust between us, compelling us to desist, to disobey which is instant death. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force.
She broke free by thrusting her elbow into his chest.
He said the design is basically a 9,000-lb-thrust engine, heavily derated to specific airframe power requirements.
Even the more rowdy numbers managed to combine hip-thrusting, frilly-shirted swagger with no hint of tumescent, swollen subtext. Times, Sunday Times
Rob reduced the thrust in the right inboard engine slightly.
But it was her romance with the married footballer which last year thrust her back into the spotlight. The Sun
Reika parries a downward thrust and spins around, backhanding her adversary.
If it is shown to have been the cause of the blast, the problem of leaking gas pipes will have been thrust into the public domain once more.
Arcos, 30 kilometres east of Jerez, is perched on a huge rock which thrusts 200 metres up from the Rio Guadalete.
Two of the knife thrusts were fatal.
But the day ended with a counterthrust that left the sides very nearly level-pegging. Times, Sunday Times
It is not known whether the thrusts and reverse faults represent reactivated extensional basement structures or formed entirely during basin inversion.
Many models now incorporate a thrust race below this bearing to reduce this effect.
Mulhall, an Englishman, were still in pajamas, their naked feet thrust into THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
Still, being retired means he's got time to lay about being stiff, whereas I am a thrusting executive professional who can't afford to be in less than 100% shape.
I explain that it is a period of time away from the usual cut and thrust of daily life to unwind and recharge batteries. Times, Sunday Times
The primary thrust has been to provide greater grist for litigation, rather than tackling the hard work of defining acceptable conduct.
But not anyone could have them, no matter how many squat thrusts they hammer out daily. Times, Sunday Times
I had an apple with me in my hand, and as I stooped to drink I thrust it deep into the pocket of my ulster to be safe. Movie Night
The ship has rudders and bowthrusters for harbour manoeuvring.
Beyond, a party had scaled the wall, and there the fight was hand to hand -- with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity! Darkness and Dawn
Ill would it beseem my habit and my calling, to thrust myself into match-making and giving in marriage, but worse were it in me to see your lordships do needless wrong to the feelings which are proper to our nature, and which, being indulged honestly and under the restraints of religion, become a pledge of domestic quiet here, and future happiness in a better world. The Monastery
The dollar's attempted strong upward thrust was for now largely rebuffed in volatile currency trading.
Boost velocity control is achieved by burning all boost propulsion stages to burnout, shaping the trajectory to use all the energy, without thrust termination.
In the air, the car would function as a gyrocopter, using a conventional propeller to provide thrust and helicopter-style rotors for lift.
I shall sing a Song of the Sword, too, should the sword "thrust through the fatuous, thrust through the fungous brood. The Kempton-Wace Letters
And having the aft thrusters working on the ship would be nice… working stabilizers would be even better.
“A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.” Saint Ronan's Well
man-boobs" - or "gynaecomastia" in official language - was not a new one, it had been thrust into prominence by media coverage. BBC - Ouch
Trapped in the vicious cycle of bondage and slavery, they have nowhere to go and are thrust into a life which reduces them to nothing but robots.
Having weakened the bull, the matador in this Madrid fight at the last moment refused to deliver the fatal thrust.
Elizabeth Anne Ford was thrust onto the national stage unexpectedly when President Nixon chose her husband, then the House minority leader, as vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned. Betty Ford: A beacon for women, addicts
The executive jet settled on its main wheels and braked sharply as the thrust-reverse and spoilers were deployed.
Thrust out and lifted just above the snow of the tuft before me was the jeweled hand of a kinnikinick; and every snow-deposit on the slope was held in place by the green arms of this plant. Wild Life on the Rockies
Debates range from tow-in versus paddle in and thruster versus single fin all the way down to which local spot hosts the worthiest crew.
Once, and once only, I thought I saw something -- a darker shadow, high up like a mountain thrusting the wet blanket of the fog skyward. HIGH STAND
Most (but not all) commercial jets have reverse thrust, which redirects engine thrust to help stop the aircraft.
Unfortunately, the first test was not one of driving experience or skills, but how many squat thrusts and press-ups could be completed in five minutes.
When the propellants combine within the engine, they produce thrust.
At the halting-place they unbag a little barley and wheat-meal, make dough, thrust it into the fire, “break bread,” and wash it down with a few drops of dirty water. The Land of Midian
Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity.
; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: With all their brow-beating and blood-thrust, how different are these extremist Christians and their demands for total submission than the "Cripps" and "Bloods" who are considered menaces to society? Why Is It Christians Need So Gawd Damn Much Saving?
Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality. Gravity's Rainbow
He picked it up and thrust it with a scowl into the hands of the nearest steward.
Vix hit the retros, frantically pulled up so that the Eternal's nose was almost hitting the ceiling, and activated the belly thrusters at full power just before they hit the wall.
So they hent him by the hand and thrust him out; and I took the lute and sang over again the songs of my own composing which the damsel had sung. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Rapidity of thrust generation is accordingly coupled to torsional agility in pitch.
He couldn't have lived up to the expectation that has been thrust upon him.
Giant larkspurs thrust up their flower-rods, between the dentated foliage of which gaped the mouths of tawny snapdragons, while the schizanthus reared its scanty leaves and fluttering blooms, that looked like butterflies 'wings of sulphur hue splashed with soft lake. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Frontal thrusts will be combined with an active front in the enemy rear created by landed groups.
I was panting with the physical effort and the emotional turmoil into which I had just been thrust. The Sun
The penannular ring, inserted through a hole at the head of the long pin, could be partially turned when the pin had been thrust through the material in such a way that the brooch became in effect a buckle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
My hair was tousled by cheering crowds who thrust a beer can into my hand and said: 'Welcome to freedom. Times, Sunday Times
The important thing is to thrust the banderilla into her - forgive the bullfighting image - to see where the bull will lead us or, should I say, the young heifer. The Shadow of the Wind
But Leeds City Council planners, who will have the final say, have already given a favourable response to the main thrust of the scheme.
At the halting-place they unbag a little barley and wheat-meal, make dough, thrust it into the fire, "break bread," and wash it down with a few drops of dirty water. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
Like most herons, they capture prey with sudden thrusts of their bills.
Another application is analysis of plume impingement, the effects of firing of thrusters by one spacecraft on another spacecraft nearby.
The rock thrust 200 feet above the water.
When the arcs accreted to the continental margin, the Main Uralian Thrust and Deevo Thrust were active simultaneously, probably causing uplift of the arc material between them.
The thickness of this package of sediments is impossible to measure because of the subsequent folding and overthrusting that have taken place.
suggesting in a review of Neil Young's Le Noise that the fact that this record had already been dubbed "unlistenable" by one "august rock critic" might actually be a good sign - had a series of intriguing ramifications that reached beyond the cut and thrust of everyday pop debate. The Guardian World News
The extra propellant provides an additional 50 tonnes of thrust in the first 20 seconds following liftoff.
One of these common beliefs is that "thin-skinned" thrust plates are stratigraphically controlled thrusts with little or no involvement in thrusting of crystalline basement.
The hushed surprise of the adagio introduction gave way to the driving rhythmic thrust of the Allegro molto.
They were both silent for a long while, Nefer containing himself, although his disappointment at the loss of the falcon was a torment as intense as if he had thrust his hand into flames. Warlock
The dizzying concoction of living in a moment that feels right or wrong and then being thrust ‘forward’ to the source of the decision that created that moment leaves the viewer in a constant state of unbalance.
Sinitor Jones calls wan iv his thrusty hinchman to his side, an 'says he:' Mike, put on a pig-tail, an 'a blue shirt an' take a dillygation iv Chinnymen out to Canton an 'congratulate Mack on th' murdher iv mission'ries in China. Mr. Dooley's Philosophy
The meal was put in the wagon, the horse unhitched, the wagon mounted, the goad picked up and a thrust made, but dobbin was in no hurry. A Study Of Hawthorne
She pulled back on the spear and launched it forward, but I blocked the thrust with my sword.
But can empire be thrust upon a nation, whether it wills it or not?
That meant they couldn't be bludgeoned into staying ‘on message’ but could be encouraged to use their ingenuity and enthusiasm to devise ways of supporting the general thrust of the campaign.
She tends to thrust herself forward too much , ie to be too self - assertive or ambitious.
Arts and theatre groups are constantly thrusting the begging bowl at the government.
It was as if a daimio had been taken out of one of those cuirasses of iron and lacquer, so like the shell of some monstrous crustacean, and thrust into the clothes of a European waiter. The Child of Pleasure
Keep your arms straight then swing the weight between your legs up to head height using power thrusts from the hip. The Sun
While discussing your thrusts and parries with Justice Scalia, both of you committed a no-no when you misused the word differentiate. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Some would say you don't get much bolder than integrating self-service into customer care, yet that's one central thrust of the agreement.
Andris jerked back from the sudden thrust of the blade, but he'd been just a little slow.
Operating process of thrust chamber in spacecraft propulsion system is studied.
Then a clumsy foot in a cow-leather boot or heavy wooden-pegged veldschoen would be thrust out, and the boy would be tripped up and go down, and the crowd would deliberately kick and trample the life out of him, and no one would be able to say how or by whom the thing had been done. The Dop Doctor
To try to open one of these monstrosities is an exercise in masochism — hurriedly I discard them with the dispatch with which one would thrust away a venomous snake. I Am Sorry to Inform You
So irrepressible in youth is the thrust to become," one specialist has warned, "that it will surface somehow, if not in constructive self-expression, then in wilful vandalism or defiant apathy or even suicide as an ultimate, tragic expression of self-determination. Our Responsibility to Youth
Many of these have been interpreted as the product of englacial thrusting in ice that has undergone strong longitudinal compression, especially at the thermal boundary between warm and cold ice.
But what's worth noting is that the thrust of the message is one MoveOn was making well before the run-up to the election. MoveOn Puts Out Closing Ad, Casting Corporate Donors Against Average Citizens
Keleus thrust his spear into the earth and looked upon the dying sky, flushed in crimson, and he whispered unto the winds.
And therewithall I embraced my friend Socrates and kissed him: but hee smelling the stinke of the pisse wherewith those Hagges had embrued me, thrust me away and sayd, Clense thy selfe from this filthy odour, and then he began gently to enquire, how that noysome sent hapned unto mee. The Golden Asse
Then his stubble rasped with the radio mike before he thrust it back into its clip on the dashboard. THE LAST RAVEN
The anarchist thrust is most effective in recovering those overtaken by fame (or notoriety) of a different kind. The Times Literary Supplement
The Lesser Antilles are the island peaks of a 700 km-long volcanic arc of 18 volcanoes, overlying a tectonic plate subduction (under-thrusting) zone. Pitons Management Area, Saint Lucia
Then he thrust his lance into the vulnerable spot and killed the warrior.
Anyone standing behind an over-arm spearman will be faced with a butt-spike going in and out at every thrust, and unpredictably sideways whenever an enemy knocks the spearhead. The Spear « Isegoria
The high-velocity thrust manipulation therapy used in the study was not provided by a chiropractor or an osteopath, but by a physical therapist.
She thrust her hand into the staggeringly cold water.
At the end of it, he will be thrust into a glaring spotlight. Times, Sunday Times
These include executing each action slowly at first; performing thrusts first in the left, and then in the right line; and preceding each exercise with the command ‘Engage the sword!’
While the criticisms differed in detail depending on the type of proceedings which were being considered, the general thrust was the same.
The assault landing thrusters begin to kick in, a loudly whine of complaint against too rapid a fall under fierce gravity.
If they applied extra thrust it could have tipped the plane out of control, tearing it apart in the turbulence. Times, Sunday Times
He thrust me roughly towards the door.
In the north of the area towards the Main Zagros Reverse Fault, thrusts are dominant.
The reason why only one mistress is to be kept, is, because if more than one be kept, a polygamical principle gains influence, which induces in a man a merely natural state, and thrusts him down into a sensual state, so much so that he cannot be elevated into a spiritual state, in which conjugial love must be; see n. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
What is missing is some sense of the thrust of the propaganda effort.
It is vitally important that the people here are united in this thrust to depopulate the country area.
Entirely staffed by young thrusters and perpetual Peter Pans, television is simply not a grown-up medium.
He's going to direct the main thrust of his work towards reforming welfare policy.
They have large, forward-set, movable eyes and an upward slanting mouth with a long protruding lower jaw that can be thrust out.
As nectar is already secreted for her in its receptacle, she thrusts her tongue through the channel provided to guide it aright, and by the slight contact with the furrowed rostellum, it splits, and releases a boat-shaped disk standing vertically on its stern in the passage. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Firing the various thrusters in brief bursts, Brett slowed the rotating motion of the elevator around its axis.
China Everbright International (Stock Code 257), a principally environ performer, registered rosy yesterday defying the market, looking potential to upthrust further.
Alex has been thrust into a more active role as a caregiver, which he's rather gracefully accepting, except for anything involving the colostomy bag.
As the train swayed it thrust the bouquet right into my eyes. Bliss, and Other Stories
Like a bullet I thrust myself in a straight angle moving through ceilings, floors, ceilings and a wall.
These terminate abruptly to the northeast at a fault that offsets the thrust.
He thrust the baby into my arms and ran off.
An upthrust mountain at center is bathed in an explosion of sulfurous yellow rising above a vaporous veil of green, with the pale-lavender light of something like moonrise off to the right.
Some friends do complain and very seriously too that I involuntarily thrust my opinions upon others and get my proposals accepted.
The main thrust will be in the middle ground, but we want to publish good quality literary works as well.
Iggy himself is tastefully arrayed in leather jacket, miniskirt, garters, nylons and heels; dipping and thrusting, hunching and high-kicking, he seems to be in peak condition.
Its clear narrative thrust is appropriate for the subject, though perhaps surprising in a novel by a poet.
The geology of the Karaburun Peninsula suggests that the nappes may have been thrust from north of the Mesozoic Karaburun carbonate platform.
In Brazil, where Germany made one of its strongest thrusts into Latin America, German immigrants professed greater loyalty to the Brazilian state than to the kaiser.
Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad.
Other features, such as a telescope and finely tuned thrusters, enable the spacecraft to stay exactly oriented on a distant star.
Overthrusting, volcanism, and plutonic igneous intrusion were identified as originating above the subduction zone where one plate is forced beneath the edge of its neighbour.
The aircraft would have launched standing upright like a rocket, but instead of using a blast of fire to take off the pilot would have simply adjusted the thrust and pitch of the rotors as with a helicopter.
Seemingly every festering issue of his presidency was thrust into plain view.
She cried out as Wulfgar thrust her behind him, and prepared to meet Kerwick's attack barehanded. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
When you're young and a ladder is thrust in front of you, you don't wonder how high it is or think about the strength of its rungs; you clamber on up.
The dramatic thrust of the film centres around the conflict between the brothers.
The man continued to smile, hands thrust deep into the pockets of his baggy woolen trousers. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
The Papua New Guinea continental crust appears to be underthrusting the adjacent marginal basin and obduction of the ophiolite is occurring in an uphill direction.
And then a lank, grey-bearded man, perspiring copiously in a noble passion of self-help, blind to all earthly things save that glaring, bait, thrust between them in a cataclysmal rush towards that alluring "x 5 pr. G. When the Sleeper Wakes
The weakling is he in whose forceless nature one serpent after another writhes its head up, dominant for a moment only, doomed to be thrust down by another fancy as fickle. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
Daily Mail says the cut and thrust that used to characterise elections has all but disappeared in what it calls a phoney, heavily stage-managed contest. British Blogs
Top and bottom - guided disc assures stem operation without side thrust caused by high pressure flow.
The ‘car’ is powered by four engines, similar to standard car engines, which power enclosed fans in rotating nacelles (providing downward and rearward thrust).
Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book? The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
Tuna, researchers suspected, power their swimming by projecting muscle force from the mid-body, where the muscle is concentrated, back to the tail, which essentially acts as a natural, thrust-producing hydrofoil.
To hoick the spacecraft up out of that well takes thrust - often quite a lot of it.
In the pocket of a hanging coat was thrust a nickelled rod from a patent trousers-stretcher, so that it pointed out into the room. The Sins of Séverac Bablon
This zone forms a narrow band that trends from Loch Eriboll south to the Isle of Skye, and is bounded on the east by the Moine thrust fault.
Thorn ran and thrust the stick into the back of the demon, making him lose his balance, and stumbling.
Extemporaneous comedies were no longer played in the great cities, and Odo listened with surprise to the swift thrust and parry, the inexhaustible flow of jest and repartee, the readiness with which the comedians caught up each other's leads, like dancers whirling without a false step through the mazes of some rapid contradance. The Valley of Decision
When the store has been taken in, this accessory orifice, which is used only during the last few moments, is closed with a mouthful of mortar, thrust outward from within. More Hunting Wasps
He sounded rather quizzical and calm despite the equivalent of an Uzi being thrust at his throat.
In either case, the total thrust of the trijet will be more than 18,000 lb.

How To Use Thrust In A Sentence

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