jostle

Object

• crowd: Then he went off to the bar with the order, pushing his way through the jostling crowd.
• pack: Although Pierce headed the jostling pack into Gerards, Smith dived ahead at the Hairpin moments later.

Subject

crowd: I feel jostled by a dream crowd when I am trying to buy a dream drink in a dream bar.

Adjective modifier

• new: Old & new buildings jostle for space near the bus station.
• other: As other wannabes jostle to express their devastation to the cameras they start to realize that everyone wants to cash in on the tragedy.

Modifying Another Word

• all: There are perhaps millions of pages in the World Wide Web all jostling for attention.
• together: The good, the bad and the ugly jostled down together.
• much: Although there were seats for all there was much jostling to secure corner seats.
• now: Come the 1983 series, a fourth channel was now jostling for the wandering viewer's attention.
• about: It would seem that there are two completely separate goals with accompanying differing methods all jostling about within the same tradition.
• not: Solar systems do not jostle each other in space.

Followed by an intransitive particle

around: There was a rather sad looking trolley being jostled around by a rather sad looking attendant.

Infinitive complement

get: Children ran up to the five Southern Baptist men from North Carolina like they were long-lost uncles, giggling and jostling to get close.

Preposition: for

• position: The rest of the field raced on to the Senna straight jostling for position.
• attention: There are perhaps millions of pages in the World Wide Web all jostling for attention.
• space: Nor could she find a name in the teeming alien words that jostled for space inside her head.
• spot: Within minutes you'll have a herd of cows jostling for the best spot around it to have a warm.
• power: Less like Wendy I think there are a lot of them and they jostle for power.
• place: Jostling for a bench place Gareth Thomas Wellington, 80 Did enough to justify the faith Woodward has in him.

Preposition: by

crowd: I feel jostled by a dream crowd when I am trying to buy a dream drink in a dream bar.