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

“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

He had only joined the riot from youthful exuberance and a desire to be "in the hearse," as an old Scottish lady once bitterly observed of a too pushful mourner at her husband's funeral.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

"Directly I go away from here I shall make a list of my most really obstinate, pushful friends to help me."

From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey