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

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

But the pandemic has shoved his dealership up the learning curve.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2020

One feels on friendlier terms with furniture that one has shoved about a little.

From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Ferber, Edna