push in

phrasal verb

pushed in; pushing in; pushes in

British

: to move in front of other people who are waiting in a line

He pushed in at the head of the queue.

Examples of push in in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The second wave of displacement was during the Six Days War in ‘67 when, from the Jerusalem area and surrounding, a huge number of Palestinians were pushed in the territory now known as the Gaza Strip. —Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024

Houses, frequently two stories, are shoved together and apartments are pushed in behind them. —Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024

When is this continued and massive housing push in California going to end? —Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024

The speech, and the debates over policy over the course of the 2024 election, signal the start of a massive struggle facing Congress and the White House next year, as trillions of dollars in tax cuts pushed in 2017 by President Donald Trump expire. —Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024

The promotional push in 1988 noted then that parents, grandparents and others could prepay up to four years of tuition for any child at any of the state's 15 public universities and then 29 community colleges. —Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2024

Even with criminal justice reforms, exonerations are rare The push in recent years to address mass incarceration in California has led to several new paths for prisoners to get out early, such as the resentencing of youth offenders and those convicted of felony murder. —Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2024

But the politics of nation building could push in multiple directions. —Toby Matthiesen, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2024

There's a really strong push in certain sectors right now to eliminate the human hand and just automate our creativity to death. —TIME, 7 Feb. 2024