shoved

past tense of shove

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shoved 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 Just last week, 65-year-old Lydia Zuniga’s leg was broken in three places after a mentally ill stranger shoved her onto the tracks at a Bronx subway station in an unprovoked attack. Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026 At the weigh-ins and face-off for the IBF heavyweight championship fight, Itauma shoved Hrgovic off the stage and the latter retaliated by slapping the former's face. Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Too unbankable, even if it got shoved onto a streaming platform instead? Marah Eakin, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoved
Verb
  • Delays in testing and qualifying Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine and an explosion of the rocket’s Centaur upper stage during a ground test in 2023 eventually pushed Vulcan’s first test flight into early 2024.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
  • That is why Connelly pushed so hard to convince Kuminga that taking roughly half as much money as other teams were offering was the right move.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The only men were the mayor, the three members of town council, the priest from the Catholic church, Father Michael, and the reverend from the Baptist church, as well as a man with a balding head and a full moustache, his suit pressed and clean.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • But Iowa later pulled out of the project after electing a Republican governor, while Illinois pressed ahead.
    Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • On a late October night in 2018, Andrew Luck drove home after a miserable Sunday afternoon.
    Doug Haller, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Listed as co-defendants are Josh Marshall and Robert Morgenroth, Burke’s managers; their company, Mogul Vision; and Burke’s live-in security guard, who the suit alleges drove him to pick up Celeste from her parents’ home in 2024.
    Madeline Morrison, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Development cycles that once took weeks are now compressed into days or even hours.
    Brian Contos, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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“Shoved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoved. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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