jostling in English

verb
1
push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd.
passengers arriving and departing, jostling one another
synonyms:bump into/againstknock into/againstbang intocollide withplow intojoltpushshoveelbowmobshoulderbarrel intobulldozestruggleviejockeyscramblecrowd one another
noun
verb

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1. People were jostling, arguing and complaining.

2. These players are jostling for the basketball.

3. People were jostling, arguing and complaining.sentence dictionary

4. And could this jostling liberate those huge energies?

5. All the runners are jostling for first place.

6. They formed a warm jostling group of six.

7. People in the crowd were jostling for the best positions.

8. On top of that, there was din and jostling.

9. A thousand thoughts were jostling around inside my mind.

10. Many cars lay jostling each other at the parking lot.

11. Their seething resentment led to angry jostling between team-mates.

12. Pigeons there on the parapet opposite, squabbling, jostling for position.

13. We spent an hour jostling with the crowds as we did our shopping.

14. It'seemed to her a ridiculous armada of tubs jostling in futility.

15. Spit down the back, an epileptic fit, a jostling. Keep your ears open.

16. There is a continual jostling, and crowding, and Buzzing, and striving to get promotion.

17. The children moved forward, jostling to get to the front and see the magician.

18. Compared to mere jostling for social position, fighting for females is a very important matter indeed.

19. The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd.

20. They immediately set about the task of pushing the jostling photographers away from the limousine.

21. Since the fall of the government, the two opposition parties have been jostling for position.

22. Today, the highway's appearance minimal maintenance , as does the jostling ride produced by the rough surface.

23. The beats are colossal but a touch too metronomic, although the higher frequencies provide a welcome jostling looseness.

24. The telephone rang again and both women hurried toward it, jostling each other in the doorway.

25. Through the open doorway Culley could see activity near the pit, and shadows jostling on the walls.

26. An eager middle-aged man perspires heavily as he anxiously tries to make his way through the jostling crowd.

27. He was already running, and all the jostling and Bumpiness of the venture made any speech almost impossible

28. Passengers were jostling each other at the news kiosk for the last remaining copies of the evening paper.

29. The paper claims this represents a serious challenge to other Risc vendors jostling for position in the software arena.

30. He stayed in the shadows as he passed the House of Mirrors with its queue stretching outside, everyone jostling for position.

31. She would start nearest to the door and work her way along the jostling, glistening, pouring swathes of colours.

32. In the case of the marble statue, molecules in solid marble are continuously jostling against one another in random directions.

33. Concluding opens with the discovery that two of the schoolgirls have vanished in the night: searching, eavesdropping, worrying, jostling, and giggling all ensue

34. As they approached Flourish & Blotts, they were met with a large crowd jostling outside the doors, trying to get in

35. Does it sound to you as though it would need a miracle to make randomly jostling atoms join together into a self-replicating molecule?

36. A little farther up, an eager man is heavily perspiring as he anxiously tries to make his way through the jostling crowd.

37. “It is a grand, vaulted, Arcaded street,” one visitor enthused, “and during the session filled with a jostling, hurrying throng.” Tourists bought guidebooks

38. Great Applaudings: the parson’s children and the two little Rustham boys, with the frenzy of Guelph and Ghibelline, jumped up and down jostling each other

39. Beginning with the Achiest areas of your body, I mobilize your limbs to find any restrictions and gently coax the tissues to release using therapeutic stretches, jostling, rocking, and deep targeted compressions

40. Activisms Introduction Paul Watt and Anna Minton Introduction ‘London, buffeted by economic catastrophe, vastly reconfigured by a sporting jamboree of militarised corporate banality, jostling with social unrest, still reeling from riots

41. As many as 500 climbers are jostling to reach the summit by Thursday, largely using the southeast ridge that took Sir Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, to the top on May 19

42. He recalled that “amid the jostling of the crowd” in the house, one of the men “accidentally brought his hand in contact with one of the pockets in the skirt of my coat, which struck him with sudden alarm.”

43. The Bildungsroman becomes television shows, graphic novels, and films, and they feature new communities of characters (formerly jostling for space as, in the expression of Alex Woloch, the ‘many’) in the glory of their indivi-duality or particularity, inscribed as such.12

44. We follow a Claque of frumpy, ego-jostling, middle-aged academics on a tour of the Terrezenstadt Nazi concentration camp where Landau wrestles mightilyagainst his own jealousies and under a cruelly blazing sun--to construe justly and objectively his flamboyant yet vexing rival, Jiri Krakauer, star writer and academic, who, although deserving of

45. Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the