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Definition of thrusting in English: thrustingnounˈθrʌstɪŋˈθrəstɪŋ 1The motion of pushing or lunging suddenly or violently. - 1.1Geology The pushing upwards of the earth's crust.
adjectiveˈθrʌstɪŋˈθrəstɪŋ 1Aggressively ambitious. Example sentencesExamples - My school was a thrusting hothouse of academic achievement.
- What are a few entirely avoidable catastrophes to a thrusting modern economy?
- South Cumbrian dairy farmers are young, thrusting and ambitious, according to a new survey that flies in the face of gloomy industry forecasts.
- It is a world of antique privilege about to be replaced by a thrusting business ethic.
- It's this dilatory, not-at-all thrusting progress that always makes me wonder where passengers on the North London Line are actually going.
- The thrusting government has also entered an investment programme of £42 billion in its priority licks of health and education.
- You come from a political culture wedded to the short-term, to an initiative a month, all of them tied to the careers of thrusting ministers desperate to make their mark.
- He has become central to Pearce's thrusting team.
- Still, being retired means he's got time to lay about being stiff, whereas I am a thrusting executive professional who can't afford to be in less than 100% shape.
- Set in the 1980s, the story follows the rite of passage of Nick Guest, a young gay aesthete from the provinces who finds himself adopted, after a fashion, by a grand Notting Hill family led by a thrusting Tory MP.
- Revered, exclusive, high-end fashion names are increasingly joining forces with huge, thrusting sportswear corporations.
- These are the very men who, in the thrusting 1980s and 1990s, were putting in all the hours God sent to boost their bonus packages and earn that glass-fronted office on the 10th floor.
- To solve the growing problems, the thrusting entrepreneurs who run the strategic rail authority, a wholly appointed quango, had a momentous idea.
- If you were, you may have seen a thrusting City type in his mid-thirties, the worse for wear after an office party, running for a taxi.
- It is not exactly the thrusting activists who even get to conference.
- It's not the only thing which marks him out from the other thrusting young males on the country scene.
- He has since played thrusting lawyers, a cuckolded husband, a dysfunctional builder, cops and numerous romantic leads in a dizzying number of TV series and one-offs.
- Yet the notion of the thrusting career woman, starkly contrasted to the selfless home-maker, lurks unhelpfully in the background.
Synonyms aggressive, ambitious, assertive, pushy, pushing, insistent, forceful, forward, energetic, determined, driven, obtrusive, bold, brash bumptious, presumptuous, full of oneself, self-assertive, overbearing, domineering, cocksure, loud, obnoxious informal full of get-up-and-go rare pushful 2(of an object or part of the body) projecting in a conspicuous way. Example sentencesExamples - The stage was set for an uninhibited six-foot Australian who strode into view with a thrusting jaw, high cheekbones, and trendy designer costumes.
- Other early examples demonstrate the full range of masculine features, with thrusting forehead, strongly marked cheekbones, and sharply protruding eyelids.
- His lanky build and a thrusting nose made her think of a pickaxe.
- Before he opens his thrusting lips he should lift his thirsting soul to God so that he may utter what he has drunk in.
Definition of thrusting in US English: thrustingnounˈθrəstɪŋˈTHrəstiNG 1The motion of pushing or lunging suddenly or violently. - 1.1Geology The pushing upward of the earth's crust.
adjectiveˈθrəstɪŋˈTHrəstiNG 1Aggressively ambitious. Example sentencesExamples - South Cumbrian dairy farmers are young, thrusting and ambitious, according to a new survey that flies in the face of gloomy industry forecasts.
- Yet the notion of the thrusting career woman, starkly contrasted to the selfless home-maker, lurks unhelpfully in the background.
- Revered, exclusive, high-end fashion names are increasingly joining forces with huge, thrusting sportswear corporations.
- To solve the growing problems, the thrusting entrepreneurs who run the strategic rail authority, a wholly appointed quango, had a momentous idea.
- My school was a thrusting hothouse of academic achievement.
- It's this dilatory, not-at-all thrusting progress that always makes me wonder where passengers on the North London Line are actually going.
- Set in the 1980s, the story follows the rite of passage of Nick Guest, a young gay aesthete from the provinces who finds himself adopted, after a fashion, by a grand Notting Hill family led by a thrusting Tory MP.
- It is a world of antique privilege about to be replaced by a thrusting business ethic.
- He has since played thrusting lawyers, a cuckolded husband, a dysfunctional builder, cops and numerous romantic leads in a dizzying number of TV series and one-offs.
- It's not the only thing which marks him out from the other thrusting young males on the country scene.
- The thrusting government has also entered an investment programme of £42 billion in its priority licks of health and education.
- It is not exactly the thrusting activists who even get to conference.
- He has become central to Pearce's thrusting team.
- What are a few entirely avoidable catastrophes to a thrusting modern economy?
- Still, being retired means he's got time to lay about being stiff, whereas I am a thrusting executive professional who can't afford to be in less than 100% shape.
- You come from a political culture wedded to the short-term, to an initiative a month, all of them tied to the careers of thrusting ministers desperate to make their mark.
- These are the very men who, in the thrusting 1980s and 1990s, were putting in all the hours God sent to boost their bonus packages and earn that glass-fronted office on the 10th floor.
- If you were, you may have seen a thrusting City type in his mid-thirties, the worse for wear after an office party, running for a taxi.
Synonyms aggressive, ambitious, assertive, pushy, pushing, insistent, forceful, forward, energetic, determined, driven, obtrusive, bold, brash 2(of an object or part of the body) projecting in a conspicuous way. Example sentencesExamples - His lanky build and a thrusting nose made her think of a pickaxe.
- Before he opens his thrusting lips he should lift his thirsting soul to God so that he may utter what he has drunk in.
- The stage was set for an uninhibited six-foot Australian who strode into view with a thrusting jaw, high cheekbones, and trendy designer costumes.
- Other early examples demonstrate the full range of masculine features, with thrusting forehead, strongly marked cheekbones, and sharply protruding eyelids.
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