• A few months ago, I was walking down the main street in my home town when two women in front, pushing their children in strollers, stopped dead on the pavement and started talking.
• After a couple, you'll be ready to emulate Byron, who liked to swim across the Grand Canal pushing a candle in front of him.
• She glared and started pushing her cart in front of mine.

• Bend your elbows so that your arms are at 90 degrees to your body, then push back up to the start position.
• I pushed his nearly limp body up to a sitting position and got up from the couch.
• She used what body parts she could to push herself into sitting position.

• The size of a watch, the DRS device is activated by pushing the Panic Button or when the device senses you haven't moved around in a while.
• Then I discovered I could keep my left leg elevated, whilst pushing the sewing machine pedal with my right foot.
• Staff activate the alarms by pushing an easily accessible button.

Synonyms

• With our nation at war, the Army is pushing toward more rapid, immediately relevant change in the Current and Future Force.
• As the Union army pushed into the South, a young soldier from the south, but committed to the Union cause, was assigned guard duty.
• As the Elf army pushed forward, a sea of blood, bodies and gore was left behind.

• After that the car was so consistent the whole race that I was really able to push hard, until the last 15 laps.
• I made a clean start from pole and was pushing really hard until the first pitstop when I saw how big the gap actually was.
• Currently, the group is pushing hard to become highly cost efficient and has entered into processing arrangements with Gambia in order to create a highly competitive base.

• I'm pushing forty, though forty seems to be doing most of the pushing.
• I was surprised to find out, however, that the boys are actually a bit older than myself (I'm pushing fifty).

• Consumer campaigners have been pushing for a Europe-wide clothing size scale in a bid to make shopping easier.
• He said the campaign group was still pushing for more controls on the manufacture and sale of fireworks.
• Some union chiefs are pushing for campaigns focusing on how families will be affected.

Synonyms

• Police today declared war on drug dealers from London pushing cocaine, heroin and crack to children as young as 13.
• But Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe said legalising cannabis would lead drug barons to push even more hard drugs.
• They lie, rob, cheat, push hard drugs, intimidate innocent people and run protection rackets.

• And then, with a push of a single button, the drink will be concocted before his very eyes within a matter of seconds.
• This is handy, but the machine does not remove them with a push of the button - you have to do the prewash treatment yourself.
• With the push of a button, the narrow barrel of his device glowed and a beam of light issued from where blasts usually came.

• The push to downsize the military and privatize functions means government contracts are a growth industry.
• We hit the targets at night in a final push against the terrorist's stronghold near the airport.
• Despite the military push, a rocket which was fired from Gaza landed in an open area of Israel's Negev Desert overnight, causing no damage or injuries.

Synonyms

• These men, who ‘do not let the grass grow under their feet’, are clearly all push and enterprise.