Example Sentences

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Back here on Earth, we have been shoving garbage into landfills for at least 5,000 years, so we’ve gotten to know that method very well.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2022

Alexander: I read James Webb, John Del Vecchio and Tim O’Brien and was motivated to join, when those books should have been shoving me away from it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2021

“We’ll never be totally sure if the purple emperor is responding to climate change, or changing woodland management practices, or whether people have been shoving them out the back of their cars.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020