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- noun Plural form of
shove . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shove .
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Examples
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I'm sure that, given time, I'll quit seeing this pretty little nostril screw at all -- but for right now I'm still in [:: shoves nostril towards audience::] "Lookit this cool thing I got on my face!" mode, and I simply can't restrain myself.
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They shook out the bits of bark they called the shoves, and then Hadley’s mother would get to work with the hackle, its iron teeth sticking out of the paddle-shaped board as she stroked and cleaned and separated the fibers into tow cloth, which was good for cleaning out rifle barrels and not much else.
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They shook out the bits of bark they called the shoves, and then Hadley’s mother would get to work with the hackle, its iron teeth sticking out of the paddle-shaped board as she stroked and cleaned and separated the fibers into tow cloth, which was good for cleaning out rifle barrels and not much else.
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They shook out the bits of bark they called the shoves, and then Hadley’s mother would get to work with the hackle, its iron teeth sticking out of the paddle-shaped board as she stroked and cleaned and separated the fibers into tow cloth, which was good for cleaning out rifle barrels and not much else.
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Frances has heard her name and shoves Ginger off her.
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Frances has heard her name and shoves Ginger off her.
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Its manufacturer never "shoves" it, but sells it in quantities to small shop keepers, car conductors, and others, at a certain percentage of its face value -- 50 per cent. quite usually; the percentage, however, depends on whether it is well done or not.
Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
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Then he slives up an 'shoves' is 'ead on yer, that cadin'.
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Then he slives up an 'shoves' is 'ead on yer, that cadin'.
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"Da is jes like apples in a tub -- yo 'shoves 'em under, an' up da pops, bright as eber."
The Rover Boys In The Mountains Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune
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