Sentence examples for figures push from inspiring English sources

Yiadom-Boakye's figures push themselves into the imagination, as literary characters do.

"Heavy Air," the opener, isn't much more than a throb, even as minor guitar figures push the song along gently.

The doves in the Bank of England will be preening their feathers - most economists think today's figures push the prospect of an interest rate rise further into the future.

The alien figures push beyond hunching; the mushy materials are slouch incarnate.

Commodity prices fell back on demand concerns after the US consumer figures, pushing mining groups lower.

The Office for National Statistics said the March figures pushed sales over the year into a decline of 0.5%.

The new figures pushed up consumption growth for 2002 and 2003, and raised it last year to 3.7% from 3.3%.

The figures pushed New York up into second place for tourist destinations in the United States, bested only by Orlando, Fla., home of Disney World.

The positive earnings figures pushed median gross annual income for full-time employees to £27,600, an increase of 1.6% on the previous year.

In the US positive housing and consumer sentiment figures pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 13,000 for the second time in a week.

The figures pushed ITV1's average all-day share below 10% for the first time ever - its previous lowest was on June 24 2004 when it pulled in just 11.5%.