Sentence examples for thrust in a from inspiring English sources

In fact, if teenagers — and adults for that matter — are thrust in a volunteer situation they don't understand or feel that they are simply being assigned made-up work, it can actually have a detrimental effect.

So it was with dismay that the media giant greeted the news on August 5th that EchoStar, a Colorado-based satellite company, had thrust in a rival bid for Hughes Electronics, whose chief asset is DirecTV, America's biggest satellite-television operator.

One hundred fifty-four feet long, packed with 700 tons of propellant and anchored to the side of a Utah hill, a solid rocket motor developed for NASA's next generation of rockets is to unleash 3.6 million pounds of thrust in a test Tuesday morning.

By Edith Walton and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, December 3, 1938 P. 17 When a car was halted on Park Avenue in the 60s by a red light, an old man came to the window, thrust in a handful of pencils, and asked the occupant of the car to buy one.

Once the ship begins moving in a direction, it will continue in that direction for a time without player intervention unless the player applies thrust in a different direction.

It's like being thrust in a chess match with a master when you've only just started playing.

In recent years, scripted features such as "Gangster Squad" and the summer comedy "The Watch" were thrust in an awkward position after their plot lines echoed real-world fatalities that occurred after they were made.

Mr. Joseph hopped on the table, straddled her shoulders and hooked his ankles over the railing behind her, his pelvis thrusting in a frenzy of simulated sex.

The main problem is that historically Marlowe was killed with a dagger thrust in 1593, a little too early.

He too liked a handkerchief in his suit coat top pocket and as his raincoat fell open, he saw that it was thrust in at a casual and jaunty angle.

So I turned up to a friend's party and was thrust in front of a 30-year-old dude who worked at GQ.