BUDGE in a Sentence

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For BUDGE, below is one of 19 sentences:
There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUDGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
budge
 v.  move off; move or stir slightly; alter a position or attitude
Classic Sentence:
1  Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
2  But don't try to budge; stand right where you are.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
3  He raised considerable row about it, but me and Jim stuck to it and wouldn't budge; so he was for crawling out and setting the raft loose himself; but we wouldn't let him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL.
4  But I'm made of knotty Aroostook hemlock; I don't budge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
5  The youth had resolved not to budge whatever should happen.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
6  And you two, you stand on the steps and don't you dare budge from the spot.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
7  But it was impossible to make the Cossacks budge when once they had got booty and prisoners.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VI
8  As to d'Artagnan, he did not budge from his apartment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
9  Well, don't budge, then; if they come, tell them what has happened.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
10  On this, as he passed, he gave Ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but Ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
11  I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
12  There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIII
13  In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
14  He has a secretary who is devoted to his interests, and never budges from the study all day.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Example Sentence:
1  She stepped on the gas but the car didn't budge.
2  The Americans are adamant that they will not budge on this point.
3  We tried to lift the rock but it wouldn't budge.
4  The trapped child was stuck tight and couldn't budge.
5  Negotiations between the union and the employers have reached a stalemate; neither side is willing to budge from previously stated positions.