Sentence examples for crush down on from inspiring English sources

Betty is thwarted from outside, by a world whose demands crush down on her; Teresa from inside, from an inner fragility – what she describes as a weakness in the resonant line "I am weak; I am going back to the country of the weak" – that simply cannot weather the rough waters of life's open sea.

All of this excitement just came crushing down on us.

The sarge is hurt bad, and he has a few thousand pounds crushing down on him.

Sometimes, if you're watching really closely, you can see the weight of the world crushing down on him.

"There was a lot of hyper-extension in my left arm and it was crushing down on the bone," he says.

And then history's Down Jones came crushing down on him….I find this parody so funny because it's historically relevant.

The weight of sorrow crushing down on your spirit since your beloved cousin-child-wife died leaves you incapable of bothering with such futile endeavors as names.

You didn't know that cuffing season existed and the true reality of millennial hook-up culture has come crushing down on you as quickly as it took for their unattended phone to voice a series of soft chimes of Tinder matches?

You didn't know that cuffing season existed and the true reality of millennial hookup culture has come crushing down on you as quickly as it took for their unattended phone to voice a series of soft chimes of Tinder matches?

Crush the garlic with a garlic press, small mallet, or press down on the garlic clove with the flat side of a knife.

Carefully place your palm on the flat side, and press down on the peanuts, crushing them.