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Sentence count:259+30Posted:2017-02-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: beardrivegoadpressprodpropelpushramshoveSimilar words: rustcrusttrustrustlerusticdistrustfrustratefrustrationMeaning: [θrʌst]  n. 1. the force used in pushing 2. a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument 3. the act of applying force to propel something 4. verbal criticism 5. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow). v. 1. push forcefully 2. press or force 3. make a thrusting forward movement 4. impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably 5. penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument 6. force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock 7. push upward 8. place or put with great energy. 
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181. Angrily, she thrust herself away from the bedpost and her hands began again their energetic dance on the brightening wood.
182. Sugar shone on his mouth, spilled as he thrust into the dancers, his moist lips reddened.
183. The main thrust will be in the middle ground, but we want to publish good quality literary works as well.
184. A major late north-north-west thrust episode has been identified, possibly associated with movements on the Boundary Slide in adjacent areas.
185. It was identical to the one thrust into my hand in the alleyway.
186. The momentum thrust is a much larger contributor to the overall thrust than the pressure thrust.
187. Four fingers were thrust, gripping, through a gap between the planks of the door.
188. Figure 3.5 only shows the pressures acting within the system of the thrust chamber and nozzle.
189. Before long he was huffing and puffing, his dark neck thrust out at a sharp angle.
190. I continue along the dark pavement with my hands thrust deep inside my pockets.
191. Although thick mist persisted so air reconnaissance was ineffective, Plumer's initial thrust was made at 05.40 on 20 September.
192. Nevertheless, supply-side doctrine provided a theoretical underpinning for the main thrust of his economic strategy.
193. The Daughter dodged an elbow thrust, and brought the majorette rod down on the Sandrat's back.
194. Then each appeared to thrust the arrow slowly and painfully down his own throat as far as indicated.
195. There is room for argument about precise figures, none about the general thrust of Sir Hector's briefing.
196. On ceremonial occasions they thrust themselves forward with their cameras.
197. In his forties, he had thick dark eyebrows and an aggressive thrust to his jaw.
198. Instead, hard peaks and jagged rocks thrust up from the ground like knives.
199. But with the thrust coming from the back the body is nose-heavy and liable to dive downwards.
200. He thrust his face into hers, forcing her to breathe his rancid breath; his untrimmed nails bit into her arms.
201. The main thrust of the operation has not been internalised or understood.
202. This capitalist thrust was within a largely pre-capitalist social formation.
203. He thrust into her, and was gratified to discover one thing; she was a virgin, as he had hoped.
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204. Her hands thrust into the darkness in front of her where they touched a thorny vine covered with young cucumbers.
205. We have assumed world leadership, or rather... it has been thrust upon us.
206. The agonized hand-wringing about internationalism and the finer points of world politics were thrust aside.
207. He thrust up two fingers in triumph at the driver, an old man who was as indifferent as a waxwork.
208. The main thrust of the President's speech was an effort to appease the white right wing.
209. As the uniform cops thrust forwards we edged back and managed to slip away without attracting official notice.
210. Lowell, thrust into the present day and on to solid ground, agreed that he wasn't much good at it.
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