Sentence examples for thrust at the from inspiring English sources

It was cut and thrust at the gallop.

In a further, more indirect, thrust at the president he hopes to succeed, the Republican nominee quoted the poet Robert Frost, remembered by older Americans for his appearance at John F. Kennedy's inaugural four decades ago, on the need to "occupy the land with character".

[Page 16.] When King George died in 1952, she was thrust at the age of 51 into what would be the longest role of her life: that of the queen mother, necessarily taking a back seat to her daughter, Queen Elizabeth.

Her prose can be delicate and fanciful, rendering women seated at a bus stop as cats "pulled tidily into themselves, cross-legged and holding their handbags as if they were about to lick their paws," but such descriptions are offered almost as moments of respite from what is more often "raw and hard," the voice of one sister "thrust" at the other "like a stick".

The plan is to reach an active splay fault and the plate boundary thrust at the Nankai accretionary prism off SW Japan at depths up to 6,000 m below sea floor (see seismic cross section in Figure 2).

The point, however, snapped off against the breastplate and the broken shaft recoiled, and the Persian drew his sword and drove at Alexander; but the king recovered his grip upon his lance in time to thrust at the man's face and drive the blow home.

"Well, you've just met Mr. Thompson," he says, thrusting at the startled waitress a bag of dog food with his smiling likeness on the package.

Lift forces may be more than three times the insect's weight, while thrust at even the highest speeds may be as low as 20% of the weight.

Lady Rose is being thrust at us as the one to get interested in, isn't she?

There would ultimately be 9m pounds of thrust at liftoff, considerably more than the now-retired shuttle, said former astronaut Charles Precourt, an Orbital ATK vice-president.

The calculated critical thrust force at the onset of delamination is compared with the experimental study and finds agreement.