How to Use shove in a Sentence

shove

1 of 2 verb

• A large man shoved me out of the way.
• He shoved me into the pool.
• The children were pushing and shoving to see the clowns.
• She shoved her plate aside.
• A group of security guards shoved through the crowd.
• He shoved the door until it finally opened.
• To get to the corn, the deer have to shove their faces between the rollers.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• The spa is big, open and airy (not shoved down in the basement).
  — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• Jenkins said one of the deputies shoved a gun in his mouth and fired the weapon.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• His plan, if push came to shove, was to join the Quakers.
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• Her Liz doesn’t enter a room, but rides the gust of air that shoves her through the doors.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• According to Rachel, Scheana shoved her against a wall and punched her in the eye.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2023
• Tillery shoved Herbert go the ground and tempers flared.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
• People who, when the push comes to shove, can draw a line and say something.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022
• Power then got out of his car, exchanged words with Dixon and shoved him in the chest.
  — Steve Megargee, ajc, 17 June 2023
• Bigger and better bumpers mean that the X1/9 can be just as nasty as the next car when push comes to shove.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
• Top speed drops, and the ship doesn’t have the massive thrust needed to shove cargo ships around.
  — al, 21 Nov. 2022
• To trap the scent, Millán, who died in 2020, shoved the chilaquiles inside a roll.
  — Jorge Valencia Mariano Fernandez, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Because when push comes to shove, people deserve the chance to score.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
• Suah Cho added that people had started to push and shove, and there was a lot of screaming.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
• For much of the journey, the forest had been shoved back from the road, to make way for grain fields or cattle pasture.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Both men then shoved the bike rack into the line of officers.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Don’t just shove an accent chair in a corner and forget about it.
  — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2024
• To be fair, Cat allows the Bachelor to shove a bunch of meatballs in her mouth, too.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• At this point, there’s no way to shove all that CO2 back underground, so no way—or at least no safe way—for the rest of the world to catch up.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The man said his son would strike him with his hands and shove him down the stairs in incidents dating to 2021, police said.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• Theo shoved the things into her pillowcase and got to the front door, panting.
  — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• In another, a priest was shoved and threatened with death.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
• Other videos showed an officer shoving a man who had his hands up to the ground and kicking him in the groan.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Or, instead of decades, maybe we had all been shoved a dozen centuries backward.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023

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shove

2 of 2 noun

• He gave the door a shove, and it opened.
• In one of the clips, a bonobo gave its comrade a shove.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2023
• The next challenger received a stiff-arm to the helmet and a shove to the turf.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Busch took the lead for the final time off a shove by Blaney on a lap 257 restart.
  — Kelly Crandall, USA TODAY, 2 May 2021
• On the ground, each shove toward the stage ratcheted up the panic.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
• That's enough shove to scoot this brick to 62 mph in 4.5 seconds.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2022
• That shot earned a disgusted shove of his club back in the bag.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
• Advertisement James then gave the man a hard shove to the chest.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• On both sides of the Atlantic, people have sometimes felt the push more like a shove.
  — Raf Casert, ajc, 19 Sep. 2021
• But even without a mandate, a nudge can feel like a shove.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
• The up and down drafts of these currents push against the wings of planes, and if the shoves are strong and sudden, drinks start sloshing.
  — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 1 July 2023
• Queen was about to give him a violent blind-side shove.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• The player stumbled after the shove before running to the other side of the court.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 14 Feb. 2023
• Ellington didn’t even block the shot, so the reasoning behind the shove is still fuzzy.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Figueroa buried his head and, with his left hand, gave Peterson a soft shove.
  — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2021
• Scott gave Penix a stiff shove in the back on his quarterback sneak to bring it within 28-26.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2020
• The former Michigan State player sold the shove with a tremendous flop.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• Like before, the V-8 is fun, with a snorty exhaust note and a delightful shove of torque.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2022
• Chris Buescher led the field to green on the overtime restart with three to go, but Blaney powered to the front thanks to a big shove from LaJoie.
  — Zach Dean, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2021
• There’s video evidence of the shove, followed by the clearing of both benches and bullpens.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• The two shared a few words and a few shoves in the end zone before cornerback Trent McDuffie came and broke them up.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• The shove in the back and the sound in your ears as the eight individual throttle bodies gulp air and the rpm rises.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 21 July 2022
• The Chargers are in a doggone playoff push thanks, again, to the shove from their most valuable player.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• When the sister doesn’t move, the drive follows up with a much stronger shove to her, forcing her to stumble back a few steps.
  — Bry'onna Mention, Essence, 21 Sep. 2022
• The paint is chipped; the passenger-side front door sticks a little and sometimes needs a special shove.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• In the heat of fury, a character might deliver a shove, but don’t expect a punch.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• With no one around to give it a shove, scientists had to improvise.
  — Nusmila Lohani, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2020
• As the defender ran back toward the ball, Metcalf came over from behind and gave him a big shove.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
• When Phelps ejects him from the game, the coach gives Phelps a two-handed shove to the face that sends the umpire flying backwards as kids from both teams watch.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 12 Apr. 2022
• Baeppler turned around and gave DeFranco a light shove.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 18 June 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024