How to Use push around in a Sentence

push around

verb

• Just the way he got pushed around and handled, this school and that school.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• What Could Be Better The mop is top heavy and could feel tiring to push around.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2024
• The first time Sam and Benny met, Sam was being pushed around the restaurant in a stroller.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• An empty spacecraft is easy to push around, compared to a dense piece of rock.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
• Adding to their misery, meals were served out of two big steel pails pushed around on a cart by a couple of trusties.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
• 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
• Kansas State right guard Hadley Panzer isn’t an easy man to push around.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Nov. 2022
• In a less crowded field, a push around Thanksgiving might pay off.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The announcement is part of a greater push around child safety from the company.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Not a great line but solid enough to protect Daniel Jones and push around a bad Cowboys run defense.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Big box, little engine; lots of leather, carpeting, and wood-grain to push around.
  — Stephan Wilkinson, Car and Driver, 27 Aug. 2023
• Even in tricky corners, the hair never ended up being pushed around.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2024
• 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
• San Antonio doesn’t have Donald Trump to push around — and claw — anymore.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 18 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Cons Larger debris sometimes gets pushed around by the floorhead.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• Volunteer Katie Sanders pushes around a cart stocked with drinks, selling beer to people in line.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• But the paper would rather push around people who own properties with cheaper rent than fix the problem.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The oil embargoes of the 1970s only hastened the pace of change: Auto steel now had to be both stronger and lighter, requiring less fuel to push around.
  — John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024