How to Use thrust in a Sentence

thrust

1 of 2 verb

• He thrust at me with his sword.
• He thrust his fist into the air.
• The doctor thrust the needle into the patient's arm.
• He thrust his hands into his pockets.
• Many twists and turns, ups and downs and wild rollercoaster progress have been thrust upon you.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
• But things changed a few years later when the actress and singer was thrust into the spotlight at age 9.
  — Amy Rosner, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• One of the many strange things pain does is thrust you back into your own specificity over and over again.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• One of them thrust a baton at Mr. Luhaka’s upper thigh and caused a four-inch tear to his rectum.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• Imagine a plane with no forward thrust, which is what would happen if the engines were turned off.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
• And then being thrust into a program that is high profile.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2023
• With my foot to the floor, the front end lifts and the rear squats as 450 hp thrusts the car forward, accompanied by the throatiest of soundtracks.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2023
• Bingo lunged forward, thrusting her arm out and thumb down.
  — Alyson Krueger Martina Tuaty, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Mizuhara was thrust into the spotlight at that summer’s All-Star Game when Ohtani tapped him to be his catcher for the home run derby.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• When Khan took to the streets that summer to lead a long march against the government, Farooqi was thrust into the online spotlight.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
• Each room thrusts Peach into a different scene of the show that’s been overtaken and rewritten by Grape.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
• The device, a mix between a miniature jet ski and a bobsled, thrusts riders above and below the water at up to around 12 miles per hour.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
• The petite 17-year-old walked about the course with her shoulders thrust back and head held high, exuding confidence.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• After the tragic death of George Floyd, Black American singers were thrust into the limelight.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Each says a tick bite — about seven years ago for Georgina, the mom, and 15 for Madison — thrust them into the Kafkaesque world of chronic Lyme disease.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Gray’s article thrust the post back into the spotlight and created a new round of buzz among wine folk.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2024
• Then, he was thrust into leading the equities unit at a time when the bank was hemorrhaging clients.
  — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
• Those advancements have thrust the issue toward the top of the grievances cited in the weekslong strike by the actors’ union.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• At one point, the rhino charges in fast, thrusting its horn upward toward the towering elephant.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 6 July 2023
• The video thrust Argy into internet fame, and people began to recognize her in the street.
  — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Products and services thrust upon people by an IT department tend not to score as well.
  — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
• But a bond with the reality-TV star Kyle Richards has thrust her into an uncontrollable world of fame.
  — Roisin Kiberd, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Nobody knows this better than Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who were thrust in the spotlight as toddlers and have remained there ever since.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• While William, the Prince of Wales, is no stranger to the public eye, the conversation of his throne inheritance thrusts him even further into the spotlight.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• Akin to driving in the sky, the coaster has three different launch points all which thrust you forward at incredible speeds.
  — Nic Napier, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
• The murder of George Floyd thrust the struggles of Black employees to the fore the same year, making the need for empathy a requirement for every member of the C-suite.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023

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thrust

2 of 2 noun

• With one last thrust he broke through the barrier.
• This thrust broke the stock out of a range that can be seen in the weekly strip in the three-up chart below.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Then, to increase thrust, the flow of oxygen and kerosene is increased.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
• The emotional thrust of the book didn’t need much research.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• The thrust of the plan is to rehabilitate three bridges that make up parts of Ohio 562.
  — The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
• The engines burn jet fuel, create huge amounts of thrust, and are very loud.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
• This will give the rocket an enormous amount of thrust, 3.35 million pounds.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
• The head of the snake is in Mexico, and that is where the main thrust of our efforts must be directed.
  — William P. Barr, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• But the general thrust of it was just to play in a simple rock shuffle.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• The United States had urged Ukraine to focus all forces on a single thrust to break Russian lines in the south.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• The main thrust of the story is how a girl from Connecticut walked right into the center of the universe.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 23 Feb. 2023
• The speed of this downward thrust depends on Namor’s mass and the approximate surface area of the wings.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
• The Buckeyes thrived behind the propulsive thrust of their running game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
• But we also were given more thrust area into the crowd, and more runways to walk.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
• That seems to be a position that is at war with the whole thrust of the 14th Amendment and very ahistorical.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
• There would be more microphones thrust at them and cameras zooming in for close-ups.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
• James, who didn’t play in Utah, had more thrust on the defensive end and in transition, settling less for shots on the perimeter.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• With or without weights, the single-leg hip thrust can be a great variation for athletes as well.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
• Every last inch of her gleams: her hair, her eyes, her teeth, the beads and paillettes that shimmer with each hip thrust or arm swing, but, most of all, her skin.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
• The talent and swagger and thrust of the Corvette flow from a philosophy that is very much different from the others.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• Fans who arrived early enough to receive the day’s giveaway thrust play trumpets into the air.
  — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 6 Sep. 2022
• Future Vulcan flights can use up to six of the engines for a maximum thrust of 3.3 million pounds at liftoff.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• To fish all day, higher thrust requires a larger battery.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Terran 1 burns a mix of methane and liquid oxygen to produce thrust.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Perform quick, upward thrusts until the item is expelled.
  — Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• The primary thrust of his career could be summed up by the title of his 1992 box set: Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2023
• The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
• An electric motor’s power is measured in pounds of thrust.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• The thrust of most government policy is to enable people to eat more meat.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• If the airway is still blocked, use your second and third fingers and give five inward and upward thrusts into the child's chest, about ½ to 1½ inches into the child's breastbone.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024