Sentence examples for I jostled from inspiring English sources
Suited business people stole the occasional glance from behind laptop screens and morning papers as I jostled for position while trying to manage my cumbersome load.
I jostled my way to the hotel, threw myself on the bed and clicked on Eurosport: the European women's weight lifting championship was just starting.
At El Fishawy, thought to be the market's oldest coffeehouse, I jostled my way to a rare empty seat before savoring a steaming glass of karkaday, a deep, red hibiscus tea.
I jostled with dense, intensely engaged crowds for passing glimpses, particularly of the soft-bellied Northern Qi Dynasty figures in the last gallery, my favorites in the show, probably because their spare, lean, gently undulating shapes seem so modern (they reminded me of Cambodian sculptures I love in the Met), but also because they convey an aloofness that is sexual.
As I jostle past the balcony with the crowd, I sense something in the composition of assembled dignitaries has changed.
But when I hold these bells, when I jostle them and let them ring, I am transported back to the side of a foggy country lane in New England, back to a home I never knew anywhere but in my heart.
I hesitated and then whispered back, "Actually, my arm is really itchy, I keep wanting to move it and then I jostle the needles".
"There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said 'Master, just now when I was in the market-place I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me.
Having spent the past several years living in Amsterdam and researching a book about its history, I now find that virtually anywhere I walk in this city, whose center has been so tenderly and smartly maintained, I am jostled by ghosts.
I'm jostled by a thick jam of game developers, all clutching laptops and chatting loudly.
