How to Use jostle in a Sentence

jostle

1 of 2 verb

• Everyone in the crowd was jostling each other trying to get a better view.
• The quake was the second to jostle the San Diego area in as many days.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• On the river, ice floes break and jostle in the current.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• To keep the cards from jostling around too much, tie a heavy bead or hex nut at the bottom of each strand.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• At this pace, the stroller jostled and my son went bouncing.
  — Yael Goldstein-Love, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• My brain, jostling around in my skull, had been injured too.
  — Tove Danovich, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
• In addition to the snow on the nest, strong winds can be seen jostling the tree before the collapse.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• On weekends, the place comes to jostling life just as all the other clubs are winding down.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• This is a great option if your phone gets jostled around a lot.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• There's still time for those three to jostle for seeding.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• To keep all the packed jewelry safe, the case comes with a divider to prevent items from jostling around on the go.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• One morning, his mom jostled him from sleep with a phone call.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024
• Among those jostling for a spot on the nominations list?
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
• Ta’Shia Phillips stood watching the waiting cars jostle for their spot in line.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Dec. 2021
• Those who made the trip were able to enjoy the city as few have: without swarms of other tourists to jostle with.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2021
• But jostling through so many bodies after so long made my brain freeze.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• What happens is that a bunch will get to jostling one another trying to get at the cat, and the one closest to the edge goes over.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
• Greenberg has his group running in place or jostling as if aboard a trolley car.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
• Our only complaint about this grill is that the lid lock isn’t the most secure and can come undone if the grill is jostled around.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• Play is aggressive, as the teams jostle for position and hurl the ball toward the goal.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2021
• Tonight, though, was all about pressing the flesh and pitching the concepts in front of a jostling melee of industry heavyweights.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2023
• Pizzerias in Barcelona, Denmark and London jostle at the top.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 6 May 2023
• While the streamers have been jostling for dominance, though, YouTube has surpassed them all.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• The crank does not lock into the roller and can fall out if the machine is jostled too much, so be careful when moving it around.
  — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
• But, every so often, the series channels the rage that drives people to snuff out the threats that jostle too close.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Sacha, if he was dressed up as Brüno — and this did not happen with Borat — people would just jostle and slap him.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• They were moved to a shake table and jostled for 60 seconds to gauge their resiliency.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• Maybe a week-long look in the mirror could jostle loose some new sense of hope heading into the season’s second half.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2021
• Over the last six months mining firms have begun jostling to acquire copper assets.
  — Megha Mandavia, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
• As the team continues to jostle for positioning in the standings, many games down the stretch will have a playoff feel.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022

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jostle

2 of 2 noun

• Just a sweet glide across the land, no bellyache from a jostle.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 June 2021
• After Allison grabbed the wheel, Martin felt the bus jostle and swerved to the right, off the road.
  — Emily Foxhall, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2018
• Push-carts loaded with sacks of grain bump and jostle through the hubbub.
  — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
• In the intense video, a large crowd jostles on the platform, waiting for the train to arrive.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• The sequence starts along the half-wall, where a cluster of white and black jerseys jostles for possession.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 5 May 2018
• Old images of the store jostle against the barn’s interior walls.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
• These latest quakes were caused by the movement of tectonic plates, the pieces of Earth’s crust that move and jostle against each other.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
• Density waves, caused by the motion of shepherd moons within the rings, jostle and reshape the rings.
  — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2019
• The deal is a setback for Sherwin-Williams as a few big U.S. paint makers buy up small rivals and jostle for market share.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• The man helplessly bounced the unhappy infant on his lap, but the kid just shrieked louder with each jostle.
  — Andrew McCarthy, Town & Country, 20 Aug. 2013
• The blue and white of the Saltire jostle with the red and yellow of the Estelada, the banner of Catalonia’s separatist movement.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• Each bite reveals new flavors as the many forms of umami jostle for primacy.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• Bomblets that fail to detonate may lie dormant for decades, poised for the unfortunate jostle that sets them off.
  — Rachel Lance, Wired, 20 Mar. 2022
• This allowed the jostle of distinctive forms, rather than a monolithic mass.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2018
• Once the smoldering pile of metal cools, extra precautions must be made because even a slight jostle can restart the flames.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
• Bright blue banners for al-Sadr's election alliance jostle for space along streets lined with martyr posters and images of al-Sadr and his father.
  — Susannah George, Fox News, 14 May 2018
• Midway Atoll is just about the furthest piece of land from civilization and its constant engine whir, data and jostle.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Dec. 2016
• Even with more modern cluster bombs, if the original trigger does not work properly, a slight jostle is likely to set them off.
  — Rachel Lance, Wired, 20 Mar. 2022
• Both teams rushed out on the field, but there were no punches thrown; there were a few solid shoves, many light jostles and several pairs of teammates restraining each other.
  — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 10 June 2019
• Hence this jostle for market dominance, which has been a windfall for audiences willing to brave the fire hose in search of quality.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• For now, at least, the jostle and glister of lower Manhattan retain their fragile balance.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2021
• No one wants their shows to become super-spreader events, as music fans share space, jostle for position or sing along with their favorite bands.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Mar. 2021
• Tall pines that appear imported from a Scandinavian fairy tale jostle for space with palm trees and knotty scrub.
  — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
• On a Saturday morning, a cluster of college-age women in sequined red-and-green ghagra choli jostle around a selfie stick in the parking lot.
  — Suman Naishadham, Slate Magazine, 3 Apr. 2017
• Bahand’s appointment comes at a crucial time in ties between Moscow and Kabul, as the Kremlin jostles for a new era of influence in the country.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2019
• What feels uniquely contemporary, in the case of the Clio ad and others like it, is how the prerogatives of clickbait and the trappings of awards-bait jostle against each other within its borders.
  — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• The flavors — funk, sour, astringent, sweet, fat — jostle for attention in your mouth, and somehow the totality ends up tasting like sweat.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• Guiding a teen through applying to college is stressful for any parent, when the jostle for admission to top-tier schools is fiercer than ever and college costs have ballooned.
  — Melissa Korn, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• These onions go down amid what at times can be a crowded, chaotic scene, in which diners wait for seats and jostle for access to condiment dispensers, trash cans, silverware bins and soda machines.
  — Matt Stiles, latimes.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• Through the glass, gowned staff jostle tightly together and circle the patient's head; to replace tubes; to shift posture; to switch their position and relieve each other from the exhausting task.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 May 2020

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