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
  • They’re not pushed to build real characters, rather than embody safe versions of how people already see them.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Buckingham Palace has forcefully pushed back against the allegation.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The two of them spent the rest of the night pressed together in the crowded bar, shouting at each other to be heard over the sound of drunk youth.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Trump has in recent years pressed Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te to dramatically increase Taiwan’s defense budget.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The data drove expectations of more rate hikes, with traders last pricing in a more-than-75 % chance that the Federal Open Market Committee will increase rates again at its October meeting, per the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
    — Fred Imbert,Sean Conlon,Sarah Min,Chloe Taylor,Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
  • From there, Andrew Benintendi and Tristan Peters drove in runs.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The incoming airflow is compressed by the engine’s geometry rather than by a conventional compressor.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
  • But sometimes the wave can be very compressed around a single point.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

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“Shoved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoved. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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