Sentence examples for pushed downriver from inspiring English sources

The three vessels, owned by Archer Daniels Midland, were part of a 20-barge tow that was being pushed downriver.

Vigorous tides pushed the contamination downriver while saltwater tides from Newark Bay that were just as strong pulled the dioxin miles upriver.

The bridge was built near the fortified docks of the port and carefully moved onto barges about 5 30 a.m. on Tuesday, which were untied from a dock there and pushed by three tugboats downriver at a speed of about seven miles per hour.

We pushed and pushed.

"They just pushed and pushed and pushed.

In this sixth year of drought, the agriculture industry and its supporters have pushed hard for diverting every scarce drop of water flowing down streams and rivers to orchards and field crops instead of, as they often describe it, allowing good water to be flushed downriver, through the Delta, into the San Francisco Bay and out to sea.

Snyder, a Republican who used to serve as CEO of a venture capital firm, has been pushing hard for a second bridge to be built, partially with public money, just downriver of the Ambassador.

They push, push, push.

Farther downriver, in the muddy flats at the head of the Elephant Butte Reservoir, in southern New Mexico, the water would neither support their weight nor allow them to paddle, so they devised a method of pushing their boats with their hands and feet while lying on the stern.

"You push, push, push".

; push nDefault (INT) push offset aMjpegnoskip ; push.