thrust in
Example Sentences
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In fact, fast-swimming marine mammals and waterfowls tend to forgo drag-based thrust in favor of lift-based thrust, another propulsion system.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024
At the outset of the war, Kupiansk, only 25 miles from the Russian border, fell to Moscow’s forces before being retaken six months later during a lightning Ukrainian thrust in the Kharkiv region.Credit...
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2023
His celebration was memorialized with a statue, with his leg in the air and fist thrust in the sky.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023
“Sometimes you play a mom in a movie and you are thrust in the role of motherhood. You’re being a mom and then the actual relationship under it has to catch up,” Garner said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2023
I never walked past their cot because one of them had a gangrenous foot that she would thrust in the face of anyone who came near.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
