shoved

past tense of shove

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shoved The banquet hall was total chaos, packed with people who shoved their way toward the front, trying to bribe the hostess for a table with red envelopes. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 Although some Alabama fans reacted to the loss and officiating by throwing water bottles on the field, one spectator came down from his seat and got in the face of and shoved Georgia linebacker Raylen Wilson. — Connor Riley, AJC.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The worm, however impossible to miss, is shoved, bumped, and pushed around with everyone else in the stifling subway car. — Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026 Vaccaro claimed Hill put his hands on her, shoved her, forcibly restrained her and threw her computer. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Vaccaro Hill testified during the trial that Hill shoved her to the ground, twisted her breasts, pulled her hair and threatened her. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 Hill then threw Vaccaro’s items around the room and pushed and shoved her to the floor, later ripping Vaccaro’s necklace from her neck, according to the petition. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026 During the scuffle, a loud smack is heard as the officer who shoved her appears to punch her in the face. — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026 The dress was believed lost until Parton's niece Rebecca Seaver, who is curating the museum, found it about a year ago wrapped in a paper bag and shoved into a trunk, Summers said. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoved
Verb
  • Already, two bipartisan groups of senators have pushed back on the decision, including seven Republicans.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Lebanese officials have pushed for a last-minute extension of UNIFIL's mandate, so far without success.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Ossoff last year also pressed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin for canceling public health and environmental grants.
    — Maydeen Merino, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Kevin also pressed political leaders to take up the cause, arguing that defending female athletics bridges partisan divides.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The individual who inflicted the fatal injury drove the spear downward through the victim’s left chest cavity from the front, piercing major arteries and the lungs before creating the hole in the left scapula.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Ohtani drove the Struggle Bus into Game 3, having struck out seven times in 20 playoff at-bats, with only three singles and no extra-base hits and no RBIs.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Brands face a compounding storm of carrier peak surcharges, compressed delivery windows, and intense warehouse capacity constraints.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, the team fed the moment-by-moment activity of 332 brain regions into CEBRA, a machine-learning tool that compressed the data down to its essential structure while preserving the order of events.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026

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“Shoved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoved. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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