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jostle | American Dictionary

jostle
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈdʒɑs·əl/
to push against someone in order to move past that person or get more space when you are in a crowd of people:
[ T ]Someone jostled her from behind.

Examples of jostle

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Monkeys dislike being jostled, and they demand more elbow-room the higher their social rank.
As for the outer movements of the quartet, they are jostling processions, the after necessarily rather different from the before.
Alive with a tension between negative and positive space, these small abstract paintings are like plans of dense cities, where buildings jostle for room.
Probably not one in twenty of the crowd that stood there jostling in the hot sunshine knew or cared what was taking place.
There are also fissiparous tendencies in the north, with retired military men jostling for leadership with the present vice-president.
Others were jostling for a chance of pulling the chariot, for this is deemed to be an act of religious merit.
More important than this is the selection of poems, where often the good jostles the mediocre, and occasionally the mediocre is preferred for 'special study'.
This stereotype of singers jostling for preeminence, though, should be considered in conjunction with the ephemeral quality of the interpreter's art.
Interfering with one worker, the chorister jostles against another worker, the writer.
The decade was a dynamic one, and multiple views jostled for prominence.
Yet this transformation was itself uneven and one often finds the orthodox and unorthodox jostling side by side in the same work.
The spectators laugh, jostle, move in and out, and often transgress the amorphous barriers between their space and that of the performers.
The accoutrements of gentility jostle on the mantlepiece, while meat is being carved in the shop front adjoining.
Having theatrical expectations toyed with is one thing; having ontological ones jostled is quite another.
Talk of a new school immediately led to disagreement and fighting, and a variety of people, in particular local elites, jostled to take advantage of possible new opportunities.
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