CRUSHING in a Sentence
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205 example sentences for CRUSHING, such as:
1. Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
2. She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.
3. This synthetic dress material does not crush.
4. A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.
5. They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
2. She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.
3. This synthetic dress material does not crush.
4. A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.
5. They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CRUSHING
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crushing
a. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
n. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1 "The sooner the better," she said, hoping that perhaps he would release the crushing pressure on her rings before she had to ask him to do it.
2 She untied the waist tape and slipped it down over her feet, crushing the soft linen folds between her hands.
3 All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed.
4 One long column, half-burned, had fallen across the lawn, crushing the cape jessamine bushes.
5 This crushing news brought by Will, coming on top of a year of back-breaking work and hope deferred, was the last straw.
6 Seven times Congress had passed crushing acts against the state to keep it a conquered province, three times the army had set aside civil law.
7 She had lost her dearest child but she could stand that, somehow, as she had stood other crushing losses.
8 These business men, from their crushing labors of sitting in an office seven hours a day, would calmly recommend that I have a dozen children.
9 Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.
10 In the city there was a combination of employers, representing hundreds of millions of capital, and formed for the purpose of crushing the labor unions.
11 Nearly every one else in Packingtown did the same, however, for there was universal exultation over this triumph of popular government, this crushing defeat of an arrogant plutocrat by the power of the common people.
12 He could feel the onward swing of the regiment about him and he conceived of a thunderous, crushing blow that would prostrate the resistance and spread consternation and amazement for miles.
13 The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing the old carter's breast more and more.
14 The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and her child.
15 All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him.
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 Since you left crushing the dream with, then I choose in perishing in addition.
2 His loss would be a crushing blow to Liverpool's title hopes.
3 A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.
4 From the government's side, the outgoing Prime Minister, Ivan Kostov, admitted personal responsibility for his party's crushing defeat.
5 When you know why you like someone, it's a crush.
6 Don't crush the box; it has flowers in it.
7 It concerned her that Bess was developing a crush on Max.
8 It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
9 They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
10 She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.
11 Don't crush this box; there are flowers inside.
12 This synthetic dress material does not crush.
13 There's particular concern over reports of human rights abuses, committed by the Indonesian security forces in Aceh as they try to crush the separatist movement there.
14 Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
15 His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition.