Sentence examples for shove under from inspiring English sources

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Visitors first enter a dreamlike representation of a child's bedroom -- the bed floats in the air under a high ceiling with stars beyond it; dangling below the bed are a soccer ball and toys, the jumble of stuff that children shove under their beds.

But most people have an especially soft spot for the first book they read while knowing they weren't meant to be reading it - the book you got your hot little hands on at the age of 11 or 12, and had to shove under the bedclothes PDQ when your mum put her head around the door to check on your virginal slumber.

They will most likely continue to tell analysts such payments are "non-operational," just as they do with taxes and other items they shove under the rug.

There might have been something you just want to shove under the carpet.

They of course do not want to deal with this but given how secrets have a way to getting to the media in DC this is certainly not something they will be able to shove under a rug even if they were tempted to.

What has really irritated polite society is that the publishers freely admit their team of vendors may buy drugs with the proceeds, a truism that the Big Issue magazine has always been careful to shove under the carpet (for their part, Big Issue ​told the BBC that they have a pastoral role to move their vendors away from drugs).

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"Everything is shoved under the table under the current laws.

Now, the coffin has been shoved under the carpet.

Phil's crack is – mercifully – no longer being shoved under our noses (or his).

Why, you have to wonder, are they being shoved under our noses so soon?

'Mmmm!' Ortega affirms when the bottle is shoved under his nose.

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