Pressed in sentence

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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?

KW: The charges would be pressed and it would have a bond posted, then the charges will get dropped ... because there was no evidence.

They pressed the button every time they saw the face.

Pretty soon, we could tell that they were successfully mind-wandering, because they pressed the button when that face was upside down.

And I pressed her, and I asked her, "Why did you come back and get your care here?"

When I was in Davos, China's Mayor of Dalian was pressed about their CO2 strategy, and he said the following, "You know, Americans use seven times the CO2 per capita as Chinese."

It wants only to be here tomorrow, dressed perhaps in the sleeve of a plaid shirt, nose pressed against the page, writing a few more dutiful lines while I gaze out the window and imagine Budapest or some other city where I have never been.

But pressed up against these democratic aspirations was a very different day-to-day experience, especially in Egypt.

Is there anything companies can do to make their employees feel less pressed for time?

When the tip of the device is pressed against tissue, the mechanism expands outwards and wedges in place against the wall.

I was handcuffed, blindfolded, and forced to kneel, as the silencer of a gun pressed against my neck.

So Justine chuckled to herself, and pressed send, and got no replies, and felt that sad feeling that we all feel when the Internet doesn't congratulate us for being funny.

And she chuckled to herself, pressed send, got on the plane, got no replies, turned off her phone, fell asleep, woke up 11 hours later, turned on her phone while the plane was taxiing on the runway, and straightaway there was a message from somebody that she hadn't spoken to since high school, that said, "I am so sorry to see what's happening to you."

And in the 14th century during the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese emperor shifted the standard from tea pressed into cakes to loose leaf tea.

But when I found myself back home one winter break, with my face planted in the floor, my hands tied behind my back and a burglar's gun pressed to my head, I knew that even the best education couldn't save me.

A key was pressed?

So what I did was I scrolled down to the bottom of the email, and I pressed, "Unsubscribe."

He then approached her from behind, pressed the barrel of his gun against her head, and with a single bullet, lacerated her midbrain.

It's the button that gets pressed when you think, "I must do something about this."

It gets pressed for all sorts of reasons.

So my activation button for gay equality was pressed, and along with many, many others, I campaigned for years for gay rights, and in particular, the right to marry the person that I love.

So I pressed on.

I been so pressed that I don't even know what's bothering me.

These clumps, or curds, became the building blocks of cheese, which would eventually be aged, pressed, ripened, and whizzed into a diverse cornucopia of dairy delights.

That's a term that I coined a few years ago while I was thinking of how pressed we are together, and at the same time how these small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

And I pressed "Publish," and I ran away.

Here's just one more paradox: If all of these faster technologies were supposed to free us from drudgery, why do we all feel so pressed for time?

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