How to Use thrust on/upon in a Sentence

thrust on/upon

phrasal verb

• Some of my favorite friendships are the ones that are thrust upon you.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• My suspicion is that most of the volume load from Hopkins will be thrust on to Fuller.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2020
• There’s a fragility there, because she’s had this role in some ways thrust upon her.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• Ukraine said its fighters drove back a Russian thrust on the plant, which was also being bombed from above.
  — Jon Gambrell and Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2022
• 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
• The reality of the mayorship is that crises are often thrust upon the city.
  — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
• The eyes are a way for Black bodies to reflect the intense scrutiny so often thrust upon them.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Today, a look at how the recruiting process needs lots of improvement—and this isn’t work that should be thrust on applicants.
  — S. Mitra Kalita, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
• Just as the role of caregiver was thrust on her, regardless of her suitability, so was the subject.
  — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 26 July 2022
• Products and services thrust upon people by an IT department tend not to score as well.
  — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
• Women have had beauty standards thrust on them for millennia; why can’t men?
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 June 2024
• But some of those choices are thrust upon him by the 1930s version of the entertainment industry.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 June 2024
• But remember: Never force gratitude or let it be thrust on you.
  — cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
• But inherently, that focus comes with a certain degree of praise thrust on the industry as a whole.
  — Julie Kliegman, The Week, 26 Feb. 2018
• The pair are thrust on a cross-country odyssey through what's left of America, dodging human raiders, scavengers, and the vicious Infected.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 June 2023
• The former space shuttle program engines are combined with two solid rocket boosters to provide the SLS’s 8.8 million pounds of thrust on liftoff.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
• Part of the mission of the early Cold War was to prove that the country’s artists, writers, and intellectuals were indeed ready for the global leadership that had been thrust upon them.
  — Beverly Gage, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
• Whoever thought of putting cameras into telephones probably had no idea how much boredom would thus be thrust upon the world.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 20 June 2023
• That’s part of what endeared Ruiz to the masses, winning a world title without fitting into the body-shape expectations thrust on top athletes.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• Others have activism thrust upon them—a process that may take decades or emerge from a sudden, transformative eruption of conscience.
  — James Marcus, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• Aang is an adventurous and fun-loving 12-year-old who is constantly grappling with the burdens thrust upon him.
  — EW.com, 17 Oct. 2023
• Davis was a fan of the generation of young actors taking over Hollywood who would have the reductive Brat Pack label thrust upon them.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
• Leo July 23-August 22 Leadership might be thrust upon you at any moment.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• The setup will generate about 16.5 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff and cement the Starship as the most powerful rocket in history.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
• Formed when massive slabs of seabed limestone were thrust on top of one another, the Springs are in many ways a distinct eco-island, complete with locally endemic species.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2011
• And embrace the pressure, expectations and title-winning window that has been thrust upon them.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• Lots of suspicion has been thrust upon the Miami Dolphins defense this season.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
• The Coloradan won the Granite State primary and gained a shimmery appeal that threatened Mondale, suddenly thrust on the defensive.
  — David Shribman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• The three boosters combine to produce 5.1 million pounds of thrust on liftoff, the most powerful commercial active rocket available.
  — Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2024
• If the twenty-first century is not to follow the same pattern—most dangerously, in the competition with China—then Americans will need to stop looking for the exits and accept the role that fate and their own power have thrust upon them.
  — Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024