crush
Example Sentences
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“You’re funny and smart and you bring out the best in people. I’m not crushing or anything. I’m just stating facts.”
From Literature
It began not with an absence of noise or a deafening crush of earth, but with the gurgle of water and the alarm of a siren.
From Literature
The spiritual leader, who lives in Dharamshala in India, left China in fear of his life after Chinese troops crushed an uprising.
From BBC
The Dalai Lama was just 23 when he fled the Tibetan capital Lhasa in fear for his life after Chinese troops crushed an uprising in 1959.
From Barron's
“I wouldn’t be chasing that,” said Talley Léger, chief market strategist at the Wealth Consulting Group, noting that any pickup in consumer sentiment based on a reaccelerating economy could crush gold prices.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
