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
  • Paralyzed from the waist down after her suicide attempt, Clancy uses a wheelchair, which Reddington pushed to the front of the courtroom.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • As data centers expand across North Carolina, Attorney General Jeff Jackson has pushed Duke Energy to create a class for the facilities so households aren’t left paying for power plants and grid upgrades needed to serve them.
    Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Bridgers proffers the second of the film’s most impressive transformations when Del is occasionally pressed into service to perform as an underage boy — changing her body language, her gait and, again, her voice.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Lahren pressed further on Hollywood’s standard negotiation tactics, noting that studios often attempt to shortchange individuals selling their life rights.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Middle East war and the resulting shipping disruption through the Strait of Hormuz drove up global commodity costs, further squeezing Beijing's own appetite for commodity imports.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Matson testified that Paul Robinson visited to the fraternity house two days after his son posted bail, then drove with Matson to retrieve the safe while his son packed at the fraternity house.
    Finch Walker, USA Today, 3 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 8 Sep. 2026.

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