"it propels" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is moving forward with energy or force. Example: "The engine propels the car forward with great speed."
It propels its jumps by a sudden extension of its middle and hind legs.
And it shows real momentum as it propels its main character toward "the most important revolutionary mission undertaken since man learned to stiffen his spine!" But it remains essentially unsurprising until a final twist affects its outcome.
It's rare that such slow, deliberate prose is this highly charged, but Haruf's writing draws power from his sense of character — its limitations and its possibilities — and how it propels action.
It propels itself using its muscular tail rather than its pectoral fins.
It is a measure of how fast the army has moved to secure dominance as it propels Pakistan into its own war on terror.General Sharif and his fellow officers argue that the school massacre has brought not just a reluctant political class but also the bulk of the country to recognise that Islamist militants pose a threat to Pakistan's very existence.
One of the wonders of Weill's movie is in its intimate crystallization of the inchoate; it propels Susan Weinblatt and a city of young women into the future, and it's terribly sad that Weill's — and, for that matter, Mayron's — own careers didn't leap ahead in the same way.
Opera has its own narrative drive, and the ways it propels us forward operate on some hypnotic, subconscious level.
It propels itself through the water with its wings to scoop up krill and plankton, but it also flies laboriously.
Other times it propels her redemption.
Just the opposite: it propels the place forward.
