Crush is an English word with synonyms like jam or press. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Crush in a sentence
Related words
Crush meaning
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A violent crowding.
Synonyms of Crush
Using Crush
- The main meaning on this page is: A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. | Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd. | A violent crowding.
- Useful related words include: jam, press, oppress, compressing.
- In the example corpus, crush often appears in combinations such as: to crush, crush on, crush the.
Context around Crush
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crush
- In this selection, "crush" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, candy, huge, celebrity, saga, soda and jelly stand out and add context to how "crush" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a huge crush on king and about his crush on nas. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crush" sits close to words such as erosion, hostage and kenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crush
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And that realisation began to crush me. (7 words)
The intensity of the crush broke more crush barriers on the terraces. (12 words)
Ask Minnesotans about the state’s official flag, and prepare for a crush of critiques. (15 words)
Bobby has been very vocal about his crush on Nas ever since the latter came out as gay during Pride Month. He even the rapper his new Man Crush Monday through an Instagram post that featured a photo of Nas rocking a cowboy outfit. (44 words)
The trick Crush function lets you soon add up to nine of one’s Facebook buddies or Instagram supporters and can alert them that some body includes a crush if they have a dating profile, that is on them through Facebook Dating. (42 words)
And the report left little doubt that the day could have turned deadly, drawing a direct comparison to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in which policing mistakes produced a crush inside an English stadium that eventually led to the deaths of 97 people. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
The free unlimited lives was available to players of the following games: Candy Crush Saga, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Candy Crush Jelly Saga, Candy Crush Friends Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, Bubble Witch 3 Saga and Pet Rescue Saga.
One day, I said I had a crush and got the response, 'I'm very attracted to you and feel love towards you, but I don't have a crush on you.
The chirpy actress has confessed to having a huge crush on King Khan with whom she has acted in Dear Zindagi and her second celebrity crush is Shahid Kapoor with whom she has worked in Udta Punjab.
The trick Crush function lets you soon add up to nine of one’s Facebook buddies or Instagram supporters and can alert them that some body includes a crush if they have a dating profile, that is on them through Facebook Dating.
Bobby has been very vocal about his crush on Nas ever since the latter came out as gay during Pride Month. He even the rapper his new Man Crush Monday through an Instagram post that featured a photo of Nas rocking a cowboy outfit.
Ten people were killed in a crush getting out of a Nyusi rally in Nampula on 11 September, when the presidential guard shut the gates after Nyusi left and would not let people leave and a crush developed.
Cletus had a crush (though not as bad as Enos' crush) on Daisy and was even convinced she wanted to marry him.
Encyclopedia tends to dislike anyone whom Sally has a crush on, possibly indicating that he has a crush on her.
The intensity of the crush broke more crush barriers on the terraces.
After three summers of a pandemic-bloated crush of demand that filled up Shore homes, created new investors and pumped up rental and sale rates, things this summer are quite different.
All of her classmates have a crush on her and worship the ground she walks on.
And that realisation began to crush me.
And the report left little doubt that the day could have turned deadly, drawing a direct comparison to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in which policing mistakes produced a crush inside an English stadium that eventually led to the deaths of 97 people.
Armed men in military garb and distribution workers screamed at the crowd to turn back as they tried to pull people out of the crush.
As a matter of fact, he's terrible with tact and keeping secrets, which isn't exactly convenient when he accidentally discovers that his crush is a vampire.
Ask Minnesotans about the state’s official flag, and prepare for a crush of critiques.
Attack on Titan is giving its all in terms of showing the crimes of Eren Jaeger as he performs genocide in his bid to save his family and friends, deciding to crush the vast majority of the world's population underfoot.
Avaline — Thuizat named it as his professional crush, with a clean wine that is at once sapid and evokes the mineral qualities of the landscape around the estate.
Bad Bunny has rightfully ascended to the throne as the world’s most crush-worthy human, the media last week about having weirdly long fingers.
Ben Affleck would rather be anywhere else than front row at the watching Stevie Wonder crush Higher Ground pic.
Common combinations with crush
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to crush 43×
- crush on 36×
- crush the 19×
- crush and 9×
- the crush 9×
- had crush 8×
- crush of 8×
- crush is 7×
- candy crush 6×
- his crush 6×