justle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Example Sentences
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I was born under the nose of St. Dunstan's steeple, just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple-bar.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Their cries soon waken all the dwellers near; Now murmuring noises rise in every street; The more remote run stumbling with their fear, And in the dark men justle as they meet.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
He will sometimes propend to us upon the reading a good writer, and at Bellarmine recoils as far back again; and the fathers justle him from one side to another.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John
The grave old man he makes a bustle, And his wise sentence in must justle.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
I do not discommend or derogate from those other studies; I should betray mine own ignorance and weakness should I do so; I only wish they might not altogether justle out and exclude this.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
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