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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Durbin pressed Patel on his spending, pointing to a private letter the committee's Republican chairman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, sent Patel in May.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 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
  • 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 18 Sep. 2026.

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