Sentence examples for pushing about from inspiring English sources

The problem with being pushy, they say, is that this approach goes down much better at home than it does with those you are pushing about abroad.

Using your fingertips, shape the dough into a rectangle the same length as the tin, pushing about half the air out of the risen dough as you do this.

The Henry VI plays are wall-to-wall battles, and even when it's not a formal battle scene there can be a lot of conflict between rival factions – they're full of brawling blokes with lots of strutting and pushing about.

He said last week that he was pushing about 335 pounds -- 5 over his listed weight in the N.B.A. Encyclopedia -- and that his body fat was 14percentt, a level apparently deemed acceptable for a 7-foot-1, incredibly large-boned man.

"They're pushing about as far as they can go," he says.

We are pushing about 4,000,000 API calls to Facebook a day, but we don't have it to Twitter.

It's about time discipline is instilled into this game and I am not a person who gets pushed about".

Even while being pushed about and hushed, people seemed to love it all.

"It's lovely not to get pushed about!" she said -- not that Ms. Beane, a model and veteran of the party scene, seems like a woman people would dare push about.

A butch drag queen tries to entertain four men but fails, is pushed about and is stripped of her wig.

Be prepared to stand up to it or be pushed about by senior staff in some organizations and government departments.