How to Use push around in a Sentence
push around
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Just the way he got pushed around and handled, this school and that school.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
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What Could Be Better The mop is top heavy and could feel tiring to push around.
—Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2024
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The first time Sam and Benny met, Sam was being pushed around the restaurant in a stroller.
—Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
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And the gray zone means that there’s more room for the diplomats to sort of work around it, push around it, try to limit it and pull it back.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
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But there were times we got pushed around and that was the reality of the Ottawa games.
—Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2023
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An empty spacecraft is easy to push around, compared to a dense piece of rock.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
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Still, Encore may be pushing its luck with two unions that don’t like to be pushed around.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
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Kansas State right guard Hadley Panzer isn’t an easy man to push around.
—Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Nov. 2022
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In a less crowded field, a push around Thanksgiving might pay off.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
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Indiana's been able to bully and push around the teams it's played thus far this season.
—Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2022
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Kancey might get pushed around early and often in the run game by heftier guards and centers.
—Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
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Ships as large as the Dali must maintain a certain speed to avoid being pushed around by winds and currents.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2024
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The announcement is part of a greater push around child safety from the company.
—Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
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My plan has put the city in the driver’s seat, and we are not being pushed around by developers.
—Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2023
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Pal is more of a perimeter slasher who can handle the ball but gets pushed around inside with his 185-pound frame.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
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Big box, little engine; lots of leather, carpeting, and wood-grain to push around.
—Stephan Wilkinson, Car and Driver, 27 Aug. 2023
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Even in tricky corners, the hair never ended up being pushed around.
—Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2024
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Alienware's mouse is 3.14 ounces and feels light to push around without feeling cheap or hollow.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2022
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San Antonio doesn’t have Donald Trump to push around — and claw — anymore.
—San Antonio Express-News, 18 Mar. 2021
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We’re particularly impressed by how easy this stroller is to push around, even with a full car seat in it.
—Jessica Booth, Parents, 2 Aug. 2023
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There’s certainly enough cap space to add players who would make San Jose a more difficult team to push around.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
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Cons Larger debris sometimes gets pushed around by the floorhead.
—Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
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Volunteer Katie Sanders pushes around a cart stocked with drinks, selling beer to people in line.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
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But the paper would rather push around people who own properties with cheaper rent than fix the problem.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
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If the lines are strong enough After the big roster renovation, the new systems won’t work if Colorado gets pushed around in the trenches.
—Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
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In its place at the moment is a last push around federal voting rights protections -- bills for which the threshold, at least for now, is 60 votes.
—Rick Klein, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2021
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All of the vacuums on our list were easy to push around and navigate through our living room obstacle course.
—L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
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Start with gentle circular pushes around the right, lower side of your belly, near your pelvis bone.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 12 Feb. 2024
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Yet the fortifications have proven a feeble match for breakers that can push around the hunks of concrete and can float 3,000-pound cars like bars of soap in a bathtub.
—New York Times, 17 May 2020
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It is projected that the pandemic pushed around 100 million people into extreme poverty last year—the first rise in two decades.
—Rajiv J. Shah, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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