Sentence examples for like a shove from inspiring English sources

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If every bottle came with a key and a lecture, I wrote in a short post earlier this week, this new breastfeeding initiative sounds more like a shove than a nudge.

"As someone said, the economy was headed down and Sept. 11 was like a shove in the back," said James A. Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor-backed research organization.

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Twist the board like a shove-it.

Pop the board hard with your back foot to get a high ollie, then simultaneously scoop your back foot backwards to rotate the board (like a shove-it) and kick your front foot forward (like in a kickflip) to flip it.

But if there's a list of EastEnders characters you'd like to shove in a freezer and forget about, Aunt Babe has to be near the top.

She'll most likely touch you in a teasing way like a playful shove, or tap you on the shoulder to tell you something.

A laziness grew up that meant that if the artistic directorship didn't really like a play they could always shove it on Upstairs, as a way of hedging their bets.

Some few rupees?" The encounter — briefer than she'd expected, one-sided, like a humiliating shove or a mild spanking — had left her lucid and a bit rueful.

Use your back foot to pop the board into the air as you scoop the board backwards like a normal shove it.

Now scoop your back foot like a 360 shove while heel flipping very hard at the same time twist your body and rewind it to give the board power to flip and scoop.

I highly suspect that they would like to shove that under a rug somewhere".

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