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shove - use in sentences
Object
- ha'penny: The game is sometimes referred to as finger billiards and is described by some as a cross between shove ha'penny and pool.
- everything: Surprise visit from Mom and Dad catch you scrambling to shove everything under the bed and with only two-week-old milk in the fridge?
- lot: For a nice brown top you can shove the whole lot under a grill on full power for a few minutes at the end!
Modifying Another Word
- then: You can then shove the whole lot into a tube.
- just: Please don't just shove the Claim Form in the post.
- forward: We should give it a shove forward whenever we get the chance.
- little: Mr Merk, however, adjudged that the Milan striker had given Marquez a little shove moments earlier.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- aside: He easily shoves aside Ricky Wilson's second guitar parts on " Breakin ' in My Heart.
- off: Jake plans to shove off to Spain with Bill Gorton at the end of June.
- out: Sam led the way to show how it was done, then Teal'c was given a helping shove out of the cargo bay door.
Preposition: in
- direction: Can somebody give me a shove in the right direction?
Followed by a transitive particle
- off: He tried to kill Jesus Christ by having Him shoved off a cliff.
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