Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shoved
IPA transcription: [ʃ'ʌvd]
Usage examples
  • There's nothing like being shoved along when you don't want to go.
  • They couldn't get the chain off, so they just cut their hand off and shoved.
  • In the latter, going to the theatre and getting the tickets were shoved into the foreground.
  • He reached the edge, shoved the board into it, and dropped gently into the water beside it, submerged to the head.
  • "So long, Dr. Feldman," the pilot called softly as they led him out. Then the guards shoved him through the airlock into the station.
  • While Tom, in the tender, yanked logs loose from the pile, Andrews stood ready to pass them to Knight, who shoved them into the fire-box.
  • In a jiffy I had slipped over the side and curled up in the fore-sheets of the nearest boat, and almost at the same moment she shoved off.
  • When by chance he started off alone, she shoved out one of her own children after him, saying: "Do not come back without your big brother."
  • He took the false palate and tongue-clicker, officially designated as an "enunciator, Ulleran" and, colloquially, as a geek-speaker, out of his coat pocket and shoved it into his mouth.
  • Chris and Amos were shoved along with their friends, Chris hiking up his breeches to cover the coil of the magic rope around his waist; the leathern bag hanging in plain sight about his neck.