pushes off
Example Sentences
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I wave goodbye as he pushes off like a cheery Einstein into a bizarre late-May mixture of rain and sleet — a scene as ordinary and apocalyptically surreal as his fiction, or America in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2022
They found that when a male pushes off its female partner, hydraulic pressure in front leg joints allows them to expand at lightning speed, launching the spider backward.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2022
Even after the storm pushes off to sea late Friday and Saturday, ice and snow were expected to linger through the weekend because of subfreezing temperatures, Otto said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022
She sprints down the runway, pushes off the table with her hands while upside down, and lands, two and a half flips later, on her feet.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2021
He pushes off the desk and approaches me, an intrepid smile stretching across his face.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
