Which preposition to use with shove
Look at me now-shoved into a job as first officer, with my full share of all we can lay hands on.
Come on!" Lying behind the trunk of a tree that had fallen into the water,not much of a boat, to be sure, and without any oars or even rowlocks; but when the water was tipped out of it, and it was shoved in again, it actually floated.
I shoved on the brake and went slowly round the first corner, where I got an unexpected surprise.
A fuse was fixed in it and it was shoved under the mud-cap.
He went to the door and shoved against it with his shoulder.
She had always been cheated, she had been a pawn shoved about at the bidding of others, her own wishes never consulted.
Tom stretched himself over to get a view of the fish, when a vigorous shove from the rear sent him like a great frog plump towards the bottom of the pool.
He reached a spot just beneath the two, and then with a sudden united effort they shoved over the rock.
But it 's me that suffers the loss,"with a fresh douse of tears, and a contemptuous shove of the oyster-plate to make room for her weeping head.
"So you deliberately opened that door and went in to rummage?" "No," said the girl; "we wereskylarking a little, on our way to the gymnasium; and I gave Brasilia a little shove toward the laboratory door, and then Flavilla pushed mevery gentlyand somehow Ithe door flew open and my mask fell off and rolled inside; and I went in after it.
We found her limping along, and shoved through the bush for the river, so she needn't walk.
Three of us got out and shoved with all our strength.
They don't measure or weigh just one piece, shoving along a half-dozen untouched and let it go at that.
(She arranges the pans under sink which the LAWYER had shoved out of place.) MRS PETERS:
I shoved down the helm, and swung the Betty a little off her course so as to give them plenty of room to go by.
" "If he's inferior and weaker, and is shoved to the wall, that's his own look-out," said the Texan.
More often they run up against a snag in the shape of some serious-minded and muscular person, who objects to having his toes trodden on and being shoved off the pavement, and then they usually sober down, to the mutual advantage of themselves and the rest of the community.
" The manager of the C.N. Morse & Company Northern Stores presently shoved across the counter to him a gunny-sack with a feed of oats.
"True enough, he cannot be 'deposed,'" cried the young king, "but by a shove like this he may be clean thrust out!"
On the bronze current, nothing moved but three fishing-boats drifting down, with the smoke, toward the marsh and the bend of the river, and a small junk that toiled up against wind and tide, a cluster of naked sailors tugging and shoving at her heavy sweep, which chafed its rigging of dry rope, and gave out a high, complaining note like the cry of a sea-gull.
A gun exploded from the doorway, with only a glint of steel, as the muzzle was shoved around the jamb.
Tell me his name, or by the gods of war I will see that you are arrested and shoved for this night's work!" "An' you will let me off if I tells?" "Yes." "Swear it.
He lifted a fold in the canvas, and gave me a gentle shove between the shoulders.
It's bad enough bein' sick, without havin' some readin' shoved onto you, too.
A negro deck-hand, the truck-driver, and the white master of the launch shoved aboard the big sample trunks of the drummers with grunts, profanity, and much stamping of mud.