Pressed in example sentence

Isabella was too much engrossed by her own feelings to discover the trembling figure of the witness to her actions, and she pressed the inanimate image to her lips, with an enthusiasm that denoted the most intense passion.

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I pressed on, focusing on one push at a time.

I've pressed 5,000 bricks in one day from the dirt beneath my feet and built a tractor in six days.

However, if I ask your minds to focus currently on Pakistan, and I ask you to think of the symbols and the leaders for democracy in Pakistan today, you'll be hard pressed to think beyond perhaps the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

EA: So all these times when he ended up going to jail, were charges pressed or did he just get taken to jail?

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