push - use in sentences

Object

  • boundary: My research aims to push the boundaries of both the above developments.
  • envelope: Its managing director, Sarah Wilson, says: " For a UK company it's pushing the envelope.
  • button: Just push the big orange button or pull the string.
  • frontier: Momentum Arts will continue to test exciting ways of delivering projects and research new ways of pushing the frontiers of the arts forward.
  • pram: Mark pushed the pram as they passed, and the students started hurling abuse.
  • boat: It would be a typical Hammam ploy to also push the boat out for the Wales captain one day.

Preposition: on

  • stack: When an item enters the stack it is said to be pushed on the stack.

Preposition: through

  • sieve: Push through a nylon sieve to remove the pips.

Preposition: into

  • midfield: Stewart Devine was recalled on the left of the back four, allowing Ross Forsyth to push into midfield.

Adjective modifier

  • concerted: It was decades before any concerted push for testimony was made and by then time had eroded its value.

Modifies a noun

  • button: Most fog machines come with some type of remote control either in the form of a simple single push button on the budget machines.
  • toy: Fire Truck Push Toy: Sturdy wooden vehicles and just the right size f. .
  • rod: Servo push rod to master cylinder seal is type supported in a metal disk.
  • chair: Push chairs can also be loaded aboard at no extra charge.
  • bike: The push bikes AGM 2006 was held in The Woodman PH near Curzon Street station on May the 11th.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • aside: With The End of Heartache, the standard has been pushed aside.
  • through: The allen screws are just there to steady the pole once the security bolt is pushed through.
  • on: Robson's been living off the Great Escape season, but last season we were expecting to push on.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • aside: True to his word, the painting went above the fireplace, pushing aside thousands of dollars of paintings.

Preposition: of

  • button: Simple to operate at the push of a button.

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