How to Use push-pull in a Sentence

push-pull

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• Boyd and Tian-Chen push-pull the last cow to the barn, slam shut the door and Boyd slaps a talisman down to protect them.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• There’s really a push-pull of her own emotions the entire episode.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 22 Apr. 2025
• This has always been the push-pull of this Raptors season, and the first half was short on useful data and long on losing.
  — Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• This sets up the push-pull of Ruby, the latest in this year’s series of solo projects from Blackpink’s four members.
  — Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
• Gene had this push-pull relationship with Leo all his life, but Leo always seemed to take Gene back.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
• This will be the central push-pull of the season for the Bulls, who have already missed the playoffs for two consecutive seasons.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2024
• The push-pull tension between the teen and her mother (Maria Dizzia) is equally organic.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
• This dream, abandoned in Lily’s life but pursued by her daughter, is at the core of their push-pull relationship.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
• With such sharp writing and strong performances, there’s no need to belabor the push-pull between home life and career.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
• Add this one to the ongoing push-pull between streaming and theatrical.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
• The tension in Montana reflects a nationwide push-pull.
  — Katheryn Houghton, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023
• This plastic tree stand is made to support trees up to 8 feet tall and features a push-pull lock system that allows for easy assembly.
  — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023
• Collectively, the two singers embrace a push-pull tension of balancing work, life and love.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• Your dreams might be a powerful resource for this, as the push-pull of a relationship that drags on your subconscious will then be closer to the surface.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Your efforts can easily be caught in the push-pull of conflicting strategies and result in little to no actual progress.
  — Jody L. Bickel, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Helgerson has several tricks to deal with the push-pull of respecting the layout while creating the openness that people crave.
  — Michelle Brunner, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• The push-pull between safety and survival is the movie’s most fascinating element.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
• Any push-pull between parks and housing over available land would be only the prelude to what’s sure to be a bigger fight in the coming months as 2024 bond allocations begin.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
• During this time, Mars may have stirred ancestral wounds, repressed emotions, and the push-pull between desire and protection.
  — Colin Bedell, Them, 28 Feb. 2025
• This often results in a push-pull dynamic, where the energy of one planet disrupts the stability of the other.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
• The superb soundtrack deepens that push-pull, in the sibilant whoosh of ocean waves, the gentle percussion of rain against a city window, the incessant murmur of an airport terminal.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• The innovative push-pull handle design assures safety and has a locking mechanism that prevents the blade from sliding while in use.
  — Christina Shepherd McGuire, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2024
• Hospitals are fraught spaces and their halls are respites from the push-pull between caregivers and their charges, between the realities of diagnoses and the hopes of treatment, between salvation and death.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• Over time, this push-pull dynamic can leave you feeling stuck in the same frustrating cycle — always moving, but never getting closer.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
• The push-pull dynamic between Holland and Amanda Seyfried’s investigator reveals the story by twists and turns.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 9 June 2023
• Fields adjacent to push-pull areas also saw decreases in insects.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2023
• Neither storyline ever outgrows the sense of being auxiliary to the central push-pull between Melissa and Keith.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
• Circumstances and the push-pull of romance novel conventions keep throwing them together.
  — Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
• Throughout the series, Raylan tries his best to leave his old Kentucky home and start a new life somewhere else, but Harlan’s violence keeps pulling him back, and this is one of the earliest and best examples of that emotional push-pull.
  — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 12 July 2023
• The researchers say the push-pull system is longer-lasting than pesticides, because insects can develop resistance to the chemicals.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2023