Sentence examples for pushes around from inspiring English sources

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Mac (Isaiah Washington), Isaak's bad-tempered right-hand man, pushes around the people clinging to their shops and businesses while dreaming of his own day in the sun.

India 117-0 (TenduLBWr LbW b Petersen 49) Tendulkar pushes around his pad at Peterson, bringing a huge appeal for LBW.

Falling in love pushes around two friends out of the average person's intimate social milieu, according to research from the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, as the newly coupled-up fall off the radar.

"By the way," he warns, mid-sentence, "I'm thinking about something else while I'm talking to you, which is that these carrots are tasty as hell!" He pushes around the orange pulses that are agglomerated at one end of his plate and asks what I think they are.

As for your Brazil point, you're right about the way they're prepared to embrace football's darker arts: against Ivory Coast they conceded 17 free-kicks, most of them - as Brian Homewood from Reuters points out - minor trips or pushes around 30 metres from their own goal which are not enough to earn the perpetrators a yellow card, yet do the job of breaking up dangerous opposition attacks.

Riding through the streets of the Condesa neighbourhood, for example, you encounter roving marimba players and the sweet potato vendor who pushes around a mobile oven with an ear-piercing steam whistle to herald his arrival.

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