Sentence examples for own thrust from inspiring English sources

The only thing holding the engine together was its own thrust.

But he was a young man used to being on his own, thrust back into a small house with his parents, who urged him to finish his medical studies.

In addition, there is a strong overlap with the luxury goods market, aided and abetted by the companies' own thrust into the art world: vodka, cigars, watches, cars and champagne were actively present.

Legs sweep up into hyperextended positions; individual body parts are given their own thrusts.

At the same time that it is fighting those efforts to curtail its book settlement and access to millions of orphan works, it is also making making its own thrusts into other areas.

Her wonderful hair, which has a stage presence of its own, is thrust about with abandon.

The arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., the eminent Harvard scholar, at his own home thrust the police's treatment of minorities, particularly black men, back into the spotlight.

As the population of London underwent an explosive expansion in the 16th century, however, the structure could no longer hold, and the reigning hierarchy of London found the spectacle of its own limits thrust upon it.

He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold water against his limbs, buoying him up".

This allowed the Australians to begin their own counter-thrust on 19 October.

"I suppose my own sense of thrust forward in work was connected to the absence of David," she said.