Sentence examples for thrust meaning from inspiring English sources

But they generate little thrust, meaning that Excalibur Almaz's mission will take at least six months, compared with just six days for Space Adventures' chemical-powered craft.

The larger Falcon 9 has to land using much more powerful thrust, meaning if they aren't careful, they might just take off again.

And Freddy's story about a magical sunflower root -- a beanstalk in reverse -- leading to her dead parent's new realm has a forced, sentimental quality, as do Boyd's and Freddy's manipulations of the toy husband and wife in Freddy's doll house, tiny figures not nearly sturdy enough to bear the burden of meaning thrust upon them.

Moreover, it was a thrust earthquake, he said, meaning that the sea floor moved up or down, not sideways, contributing to the potential for a dangerous tsunami.

The researchers assume, but have not yet proved, that the increasing amounts of Ink4 as a person ages will thrust the stem cells into senescence, meaning that they can never divide again.

Expect the severe conditions to thrust the best players to the forefront, meaning there may not be many left in contention by Sunday morning.

She's the same age as Radcliffe, and "takes it all very well", he says, meaning the attention that's been thrust on her.

Earliest use I can find in an ironic context — meaning "really something" — is in the political speech that thrust Abraham Lincoln forward as a serious contender for the Republican nomination for president.

The stories thrust their inscrutability in the face of readers, taunting them with an absence of meaning.

The kitchen was "open," meaning that you could watch the chefs through a big picture window as they grated cheese and thrust wooden pallets, laden with pizza or pork sausages, in and out of a domed stone oven.

Meaning accrues.