Sentence examples for pressed themselves from inspiring English sources

Survivors of the attack pressed themselves on Susan to offer their thanks, and many called after the service.

People pressed themselves against one another, crouched down and huddled along fences and low walls around the field's edges.

Now that day is here — and the banks, hard pressed themselves, are worried they will have to keep their promises.

Mr. Zambrano said that when the earthquake began, he and a friend, Diana Suárez, pressed themselves against a pillar for safety.

One night outside the Baby Os nightclub, posh young Mexicans crowded the sidewalks and pressed themselves several deep against the velvet rope, calling out, "Martin!

Hailing Shiva and ringing ceremonial bells, they took a final few steps, pressed themselves against an iron railing and looked at the cave wall.

But none of these meanings press themselves upon you as you watch.

(Girls press themselves against a wall until they are "flat as stickers"; an economy car sounds "as if the same motor were used in blenders").

That may be why his nudes press themselves upon us with such force: not that they are sterile, let alone surgical, but precisely because they represent a cool and careful soul — someone whose most effective technique as a portraitist is to hem his subjects into a specially constructed corner — reaching out, for once, beyond the natural confines of his temperament.

The strollers proceed awkwardly through the security scanners, they queue up in a caravan going back and forth in lines in front of the admission desk, they occupy the middle of the floor of the building's elevators while standees press themselves against the walls.

That may be why his nudes press themselves upon us with such force: not that they are sterile, let alone surgical, but precisely because they represent a cool and careful soul someone whose most effective technique as a portraitist is to hem his subjects into a specially constructed corner reaching out, for once, beyond the natural confines of his temperament.