press for

phrasal verb

pressed for; pressing for; presses for

: to make a demand for (something)

Laborers are pressing for higher wages.

Examples of press for in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Willis is on hand for an outreach event, but a gaggle of TV producers press for details on the Trump case. —Sam Gringlas, NPR, 9 May 2024

Two years later, Buehler will have to find his place in a rotation fronted by big-money acquisitions Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (both off to excellent starts) and featuring veteran James Paxton with emerging young pitchers Bobby Miller, Gavin Stone and Landon Knack pressing for starts. —Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 7 May 2024

More than 1,000 Black pastors have called on President Joe Biden to press for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. —Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024

Rights owners in the U.S. have pressed for similar data transparency requirements. —Paul Sweeting, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024

In a parallel Colorado bill, the American Civil Liberties Union and other human-rights organizations are pressing for more stringent policies surrounding collection, retention, storage and use of all biometric data, whether for identification purposes or not. —Jonathan Moens, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024

Tehran will continue to press for a Gaza truce among its demands. —Peter Aitken, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2024

And in the following days, more Democrats started pressing for tougher accountability on Israel’s approach and joined in Biden’s call for at least a temporary ceasefire. —Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024

Increasingly, investors scrutinized his assertions and pressed for data. —Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024