Jostling
['dʒɔsliŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jostle
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Examples
- He is down upon the pavement; and the crowd eagerly gather round him: each new comer, jostling and struggling with the others to catch a glimpse. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There was no frantic crowding and jostling, no shouting and swearing, and no swaggering intrusion of services by rowdy hackmen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is true, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with an affectation of humility the very opposite of his, and therefore in no danger of jostling it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- There must be no jostling or crowding. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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