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  • verb Present participle of shove.

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Examples

  • Now we have to live with this admin shoving Cap & Trade and "Health care for everybody" down our throats with out even knowing how much it will cost or the exact details.

    Laura Bush speaks out on Burma 2009

  • They were involved in shoving matches with Patriots players at the 5, making it impossible for the team to line up before time ran out.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • And when the full-contact dancing got too intense (“Hold on a minute, this level of shoving is just ridiculous,” he said, mid-song), he cleared out a huge space in the middle of the floor and sent fans on a relay race up and around the balcony.

    CMJ Music Marathon: Noise or Mess, but Definitely Punk - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • And when the full-contact dancing got too intense (“Hold on a minute, this level of shoving is just ridiculous,” he said, mid-song), he cleared out a huge space in the middle of the floor and sent fans on a relay race up and around the balcony.

    CMJ Music Marathon: Noise or Mess, but Definitely Punk - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • The next hour was spent in shoving and pulling at slippery black bodies in a darkness only less black, in tripping over hawsers and barking our shins on crates and bollards.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • Sir Stephen, already worried by the difficulty with Clephane and his pony, and angry with his sister for quitting the party, spoke with savage impatience to the old boatman, and assisted, himself, in shoving off the boat, and putting up the tiny sail.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • So today Robyn and I bought a bookshelf, put it together, discovered it was too wide to fit in the space we wanted, unpacked the skinnier but VERY HEAVY bookshelf next to it, moved the skinnier but VERY HEAVY bookshelf into the original free space, which involved some creative shoving from the floor*, repacked that shelf, put the wider bookshelf into the new space thus created, and proudly placed my books into its bottom two shelves.

    Advice to "just" get an electronic reader will be soundly ignored. karenhealey 2010

  • ’Why are we so invested in shoving all these young girls and women into the pipeline that is dark and dingy and not very habitable? taken from,

    Why we leave ScienceWoman 2007

  • Where did you get the notion of shoving carrots in your eyes?

    “I find this disgusting . . . | clusterflock 2009

  • I wouldn't call shoving someone just "any display of emotional intensity."

    Oh, my goodness! Bill O'Reilly called somebody "low class." Ann Althouse 2008

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