Thrust in example sentence

But Madame de Renal thrust him from her, and continued quite firmly:'My respectable friend M. Chelan made me realise that, in marrying M. de Renal, I had pledged all my affections to him, even those of which I was still ignorant, which I had never felt before a certain fatal intimacy ...Since the great sacrifice of those letters, which were so precious to me, my life has flowed on, if not happily, at any rate quietly enough.

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It all began for him during World War II, when at age 17 he found himself thrust into a forged documents workshop.

Four little engines, 22 kilos thrust each, turbines, working with kerosene.

Chemical rockets provide too much thrust, too much push.

The reason, I think, is that the pensioners believe they've chosen to be pensioners, whereas the young unemployed feel it's been thrust upon them.

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