jostle for something

Examples of jostled

jostled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Moral and socio-religious explanations thus jostled for space in a wider teleology of profanation and purification.
Monkeys dislike being jostled, and they demand more elbow-room the higher their social rank.
It was a trial at which spectators jostled for seats, displacing family members from a privileged row behind the accused woman.
Clearly this was happening when clergymen were rough-musicked, or jostled, or mocked in effigy.
The decade was a dynamic one, and multiple views jostled for prominence.
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.
Reactionary, even revanchist sentiment and strategies jostled with efforts at reconciliation which occasionally bordered on the visionary.
Some ordinary evaporation of alcohol from other wine glasses in the vicinity might be miraculously jostled into the water, rather than uniformly dissipating into the atmosphere.
Members of the staff were jostled and bruised but not seriously hurt.
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