pushful

Example Sentences

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This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham."

From Time Magazine Archive

Close astern of her comes War Ordnance, her pushful young captain having taken heed of the sounds of Standard's weighing.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

He was pushful, meant to get on, and had set up white spats as a part of his stock-in-trade.

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

With such a mother as Caterina, the natural daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, he was bound to acquire with her milk the instincts of a pushful personality.

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe

“Here are ancestors for you, Mistress,” Dr. Johnson might have said to Mrs. Thrale if he had only known—if he had had a genealogist at his elbow as well as a pushful biographer.

From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King