Sentence examples for was shoved around from inspiring English sources

That daddy was shoved around on the Metro because he is black?

I was being shoved around a lot.

Portugal can be shoved around because it relies so heavily on foreign capital.

I'm a New Yorker, and I won't be shoved around".

Trees were down, a boat trailer had been shoved around in the yard and a freezer full of meat was defrosting not yet to the point of ruin.

Suggesting that Mr. Reid was undercut by the anti-Bolton efforts of other Democrats, Mr. Lott said, "He is being shoved around now by some of his own troops".

These are little women, and I'm not that little, and to be shoved around by them or to have bottles literally dropped at my feet — you don't do that.

At the Republican Convention in July of 1964, ugly, public battles ensued over the civil-rights plank; Rockefeller spoke of moderation and was booed; television reporters were shoved around; Goldwater delegates put out their cigarettes on the suit of an elderly black Republican; and the nominee himself, famously, put in a good word for extremism.

"I don't know a photographer who hasn't been shoved around on a regular basis," says David Lutman, president of the National Press Photographers Association.

"In a place where rainfall averages two inches a year, rocks are being shoved around by mechanisms typically seen in arctic climes".

Tension is growing on New Zealand's summer rodeo circuit after animal rights activists were shoved around and threatened by rodeo fans at an event on Saturday.