shove
verb (used with object)
to move along by force from behind; push.
has shoved
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present perfectof shove (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Someone has shoved an empty medicine box and a crisp wrapper inside the stove too, to try and provide a few extra minutes of warmth.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
This team has shoved in all their chips in hopes of a second “chip.”
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2021
The deadly fireworks explosions in Ontario last week — at least two humongous ones amid an hours’-long spectacle of pyrotechnics going off — has shoved the topic higher up the calendar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
An ‘every country for itself’ run on COVID-19 tests has shoved Africa out of the diagnostics market, warns Africa CDC head John Nkengasong.
From Nature ● Apr. 28, 2020
Jeff, I believe the devil is in it about my writing you; I have laid out so many weeks to write you a good long letter, and something has shoved it off each time.
From The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman
