CRUSH in a Sentence

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205 example sentences for CRUSH, such as:

1. You know, we could crush them.
2. Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
3. She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.
4. This synthetic dress material does not crush.
5. A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRUSH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crush
 v.  press between opposing bodies so as to break or injure; extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1  Also, such crowds of feminine shoppers began to repair to the Bazaar as almost to constitute a crush, and something like a procession of carriages ensued, so long grew the rank of vehicles.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  I haven't crushed myself, so a woman can't crush me.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  They would abandon Zverkov, he would sit on one side, silent and ashamed, while I should crush him.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
4  Why, it seems to me I could crush him with my finger nails.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
5  Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where there was a crush.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
6  At last the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last battalion came onto the bridge.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
7  Berg rose and embraced his wife carefully, so as not to crush her lace fichu for which he had paid a good price, kissing her straight on the lips.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XX
8  You know, we could crush them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
9  Others in that heat and crush racked their brains to find some thought and hastened to utter it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
10  Staggering amid the crush, Pierre looked about him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXII
11  The greatest crush during the movement of the troops took place at the Stone, Moskva, and Yauza bridges.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXI
12  It was terrible, but he felt that in proportion to the efforts of that fatal force to crush him, there grew and strengthened in his soul a power of life independent of it.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
13  People came in crowds; there was a crush and a hurry, but no one was successful either on the first or second day.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
14  Yet this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Spaniards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
15  Dantes pressed the gendarme's hand as though he would crush it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  When you know why you like someone, it's a crush.
2  Don't crush the box; it has flowers in it.
3  It concerned her that Bess was developing a crush on Max.
4  It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
5  They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
6  She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.
7  Don't crush this box; there are flowers inside.
8  This synthetic dress material does not crush.
9  There's particular concern over reports of human rights abuses, committed by the Indonesian security forces in Aceh as they try to crush the separatist movement there.
10  Since you left crushing the dream with, then I choose in perishing in addition.
11  His loss would be a crushing blow to Liverpool's title hopes.
12  A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.
13  From the government's side, the outgoing Prime Minister, Ivan Kostov, admitted personal responsibility for his party's crushing defeat.
14  Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
15  His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition.