Pushed-off Sentence Examples

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  • He pushed off once again, committed firmly to the pursuit.

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  • Furious, Sofia pushed off the bed coverings and stood, teetering dangerously before deciding to sit again.

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  • Affected, he pushed off his boots and sat beside her.

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  • He pushed off the bed.

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  • Gerry pushed off from the table and rolled to one computer.

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  • Each has a small calyx in the form of a shallow rim, sometimes five-lobed or toothed; five petals, which cohere by their tips and form a cap or hood, which is pushed off when the stamens are ripe; and five free stamens, placed opposite the petals and springing from a fleshy ring or disk surrounding the ovary; each bears a twocelled anther.

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  • He went straight to the basement, where the body of their father had been kept.  The key to keeping the demon's away, it had been stolen by Sasha, the brother who betrayed the rest of them.  Rhyn pushed off the hood as he entered what had been the most sacred chamber of the Immortals.

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  • Dean pushed off with a vengeance at the same time as the other cyclist below him.

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  • Sometimes, when I pushed off my boat in the morning, I disturbed a great mud-turtle which had secreted himself under the boat in the night.

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  • Seeing that her mother was still praying she ran on tiptoe to the bed and, rapidly slipping one little foot against the other, pushed off her slippers and jumped onto the bed the countess had feared might become her grave.

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  • The prisoners thronged together and were pushed off the road.

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  • Often, kids' bedspreads are pushed off the bed during the night, or left in a pile on the floor in the morning.

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