How to Use thrust in a Sentence

thrust

1 of 2 verb

• He thrust at me with his sword.
• He thrust his fist into the air.
• The doctor thrust the needle into the patient's arm.
• He thrust his hands into his pockets.
• He could be thrust into a starting role right away.
  — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
• You were thrust into the spotlight at such a young age.
  — Marlow Stern, Variety, 26 June 2026
• The jump was enough to thrust him back onto the Dodgers’ radar.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
• Andi thrust her knee into his groin.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
• That’s just the system they’ve been thrust into.
  — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
• Instead, Howe had to thrust Woltemade straight in.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• Bo was thrust into helping a large group of children cope with the tragedy.
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Sep. 2025
• Many twists and turns, ups and downs and wild rollercoaster progress have been thrust upon you.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
• But its panting, thrusting allure dimmed over time.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
• The window has been thrust ajar in Dove Valley.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026
• Fame was never on my radar — and then I was thrust into that world in such a big way.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 June 2026
• One of the many strange things pain does is thrust you back into your own specificity over and over again.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• Like many parents of preemies, we were thrust into a world of daily highs and lows.
  — Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
• At liftoff, the strength of those bolts gets thrust in the opposite direction.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 1 July 2026
• As the kettlebell swings forward, quickly thrust your hips and stand up.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 30 Dec. 2025
• Given the circumstances he was thrust into, it’s worked out great for him.
  — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Dec. 2025
• Manager David Moyes’ side have lacked thrust and threat from deep on both flanks.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 10 June 2026
• Imagine a plane with no forward thrust, which is what would happen if the engines were turned off.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
• Sheppard has been on fire as of late, and that's thrust him into the second-best betting odds.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
• And again, a lot of people who get thrust into stardom are young, and your brain is not equipped to deal with that.
  — Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2026
• And like almost every child that age, he was thrust into some middle school drama.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
• Skis are thrust out in a V shape to provide rapid motion on flat and uphill terrain.
  — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
• But things changed a few years later when the actress and singer was thrust into the spotlight at age 9.
  — Amy Rosner, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• Was this all a ploy to thrust their well-beloved Luxe back into the conversation?
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 1 June 2026
• The firestorm has thrust Disney into a roiling debate over free speech.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
• Forcefully thrust your hips forward to return to standing so that the bell swings up in front of you.
  — Greg Presto, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026

thrust

2 of 2 noun

• With one last thrust he broke through the barrier.
• What was the thrust of that email?
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
• That was more of his thrust and his push.
  — NBC news, 21 June 2026
• The engine also has the most thrust in its class.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
• But the main thrust of the bill focuses on the long game.
  — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Jan. 2026
• And that heady thrust is available across a much wider powerband.
  — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 12 June 2026
• The engines burn jet fuel, create huge amounts of thrust, and are very loud.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
• Then, to increase thrust, the flow of oxygen and kerosene is increased.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
• As for the general thrust of his sermons?
  — Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2025
• This thrust broke the stock out of a range that can be seen in the weekly strip in the three-up chart below.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• But the general thrust of it was just to play in a simple rock shuffle.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• The effect is that thrust is no longer constrained to a single axis.
  — Etiido Uko march 30, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
• That’s it—that’s the whole thrust of the book—and every page is as moreish as a cannelé.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2026
• But we also were given more thrust area into the crowd, and more runways to walk.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
• Vectored thrust is the ability to change the angle of the thrust.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• Part of this anti-science thrust is to deny climate change.
  — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
• There would be more microphones thrust at them and cameras zooming in for close-ups.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
• The engine has a vacuum thrust of 87 tons.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
• Their attacking thrusts sliced the Serbians to shreds.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
• This means more of the plasma is available to be spewed onto the space junk, and more plasma means more thrust.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• If engines are working, reverse thrust slows the aircraft.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
• With or without weights, the single-leg hip thrust can be a great variation for athletes as well.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
• The stalls result in a loss of thrust and, if prolonged, may cause engine damage or failure.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
• The argument the president heard at the summit had two thrusts.
  — Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2026
• The Buckeyes thrived behind the propulsive thrust of their running game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
• Fragments of story are fed to us, but there’s no forward thrust, just a lot of pussyfooting around.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
• The system obediently pulled the thrust back on short final.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
• Terran 1 burns a mix of methane and liquid oxygen to produce thrust.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The thrust of most government policy is to enable people to eat more meat.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• Fans who arrived early enough to receive the day’s giveaway thrust play trumpets into the air.
  — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 6 Sep. 2022