shoved

past tense of shove

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shoved After Will McDonald flushed Titans quarterback Cam Ward from the pocket, Bailey chased him down and shoved him out of bounds for a one-yard loss — and sack — during the Jets’ 23-10 victory. Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026 Like the people in that book, many of the subjects of The Castle have been shoved to the margins. Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026 The officer then shoved him with both hands on his chest, pushing Shabazz to the ground. Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2026 A week after the big score, Chetal's parents were driving in Danbury, Connecticut, when several masked men cut them off, forced them out of their new car, beat Chetal's father with a baseball bat, shoved the couple into a van and bound their hands. ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026 A week after the big score, Chetal’s parents were driving in Danbury, Connecticut, when several masked men cut them off, forced them out of their new car, beat Chetal’s father with a baseball bat, shoved the couple into a van and bound their hands. Michael Kunzelman, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026 Along the way, his attorney said, he was stripped, shoved and threatened with years in prison. María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026 There’s a magic to her game that can’t be shoved into a rigid structure. Eden Laase, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 To promote the new club, Good Good shared an advertisement in which co-founder Garrett Clark shoved a female member of the brand to the ground. Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoved
Verb
  • The seat is widely considered reliably Republican, but some recent polling has Democrats feeling optimistic and Andrews has pushed the party to invest in the race.
    Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Yet the ongoing disruptions from the Iran war, which have pushed up average gas prices more than 7% from just a month ago, threaten to spread through the economy and keep broader inflation stubbornly high.
    DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Williams pressed against the confines of knowing herself and being known in this show.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
  • At the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles in MacArthur Park, Yaira Mejia pressed her inked thumb on a green document that granted her Mexican citizenship.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The helicopter, which was used by NBC and Telemundo, crashed about two hours after police say Rios drove her 2004 Ford Expedition the wrong way down a busy avenue, ran a red light and struck a vehicle before hitting the bus.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Stocks posted a comeback one day after the Fed's decision to raise rates by a quarter percentage point — with the suggestion of at least one more rate increase this year — drove major market averages sharply lower Wednesday.
    Justina Lee,Sarah Min, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Tech compressed the distance between me and my sources, but phones had done that almost a century ago, with a better quality and consistency.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Fintech revenue multiples have compressed hard from the 2021 peak, and the companies earning a premium today are the ones clearing the rule of 40.
    Serhii Zakharov, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Shoved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoved. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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