- present participle of jostle.
jostling
Example Sentences
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Eyeballs are inevitably trained on the men's football World Cup, particularly with England still in the competition, while the women's T20 cricket World Cup and British Grand Prix are also jostling for the limelight.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
As always, there were some style missteps, and tripping on trains and jostling dress-jams when too many oversized gowns arrived at the same time at the bottom of the famous red carpet steps.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
That Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seem to hate each other for real is an additional wrinkle in the companies’ jostling for people’s hearts and minds.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026
The jostling of the body during the 25-mile trip would have ruined its value as evidence, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The first European adventurers in the Western Hemisphere did not make careful population counts, but they repeatedly described indigenous America as a crowded, jostling place—“a beehive of people,” as Las Casas put it in 1542.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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