Sentence examples for pushy with from inspiring English sources

She nods, a little pushy with her probing.

And it's true: Eve shouldn't have been so pushy with the apple.

"In retrospect I might have been a bit more pushy with all the parties involved".

It was only during Watergate, when the White House's promised investigation of itself was laughable, and a special counsel, Archibald Cox, was fired by Nixon for being too pushy with his subpoenas, that the need for an independent investigator became clear.

There was a night back home, after a long meal, when for the first time after knowing her for so long, I got a bit pushy with her — asked her follow-up questions instead of just mm-hmming — and she gave me a description of what it had actually been like to watch this optimism turn to fear, and something worse, what that had actually looked like.

So they can put it on clothing and not be quite as pushy with their name.

It was our fourth day on the Lièvre River in Quebec, about 170 miles north of Ottawa, and the current, gentle at first, was getting pushier with each tributary we paddled past.

While the company has traditionally offered similar voter assistance in years past, this time around, Google has been a little pushier with its urging U.S. users to vote, with Google.com homepage ads, a banner atop Gmail, pop-ups when you perform searches on Google, and now this polling place finder in Google Maps.

They are instantly curious and pushy, flooded with predatory instincts.

For that matter, none of the characters in "Grown-Ups" is particularly sympathetic: Joe comes across as a big, pushy fellow with a dark streak of self-absorption, and their daughter, Min Foo, as a petulant narcissist who discards her husbands as blithely as used hankies.

There's Garth, the diplomatic front-desk hero -- few shoulders are entirely chipless at a writing conference, and Garth manages pushy personalities with admirable aplomb.