Sentence examples for shove against from inspiring English sources

Harwood described the violent shove against Tomlinson as a "glancing" push that was intended as a "gesture" to "encourage" the newspaper seller to move.

Wherever possible, Hitchens writes as an oppositionist, which means that his panegyrics are delivered in the form of a bodyguard's shove against intruders; and in this case he had decided on a book-length riposte to Alain de Botton's "How Proust Can Change Your Life".

Mr. Hopfinger, a longtime Alaska journalist who has written for Bloomberg News and Newsweek, denied the claims in an interview but said he did bump or shove against someone, apparently one of the guards, when he felt threatened after being surrounded by the guards and supporters of Mr. Miller.

The dining table was shoved against the wall.

It was common to see youths covered in rug burns from being shoved against the ground.

McKenna is shoved against the wall with the riot shield and slides to the ground.

"You're under arrest!" Bout raised his arms and was shoved against a wall, his legs spread.

A black velvet club chair, previously shoved against the nonfunctioning fireplace, had migrated to the radiator.

Thinking they must have come to the wrong place, Mr Norris opened his front door, and was startled to be shoved against a wall and frisked for weapons.

On Friday, groups of angry Han young men shoved against lines of police officers to try to get to the main Uighur quarter.

A vintage pinball machine is shoved against the wall of one vaulted space and rickety looking shelves stocked with black and red books are in another.