Shoves is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shoves meaning
plural of shove
Using Shoves
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of shove
- In the example corpus, shoves often appears in combinations such as: shoves him, and shoves, he shoves.
Context around Shoves
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shoves
- In this selection, "shoves" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 17.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jimmy, gable, bill, knight, wet and stefan stand out and add context to how "shoves" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and gable shoves him down and arrives and shoves wet weather. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shoves" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shoves
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After Harris leaves, Ava shoves Stefan away. (7 words)
Headlock, Von shoves him off and runs him over. (9 words)
After another break, they traded shoves before Stratton slapped Belair. (10 words)
Back into the ring Knight goes up top but misses a flying nothing then Jimmy lands a Samoan drop for 2. Now Jimmy goes up top but Knight climbs up there with him and looks for a superplex, Jimmy shoves him down and hits a Splash for a near fall. (50 words)
King with the Coronation, Thorpe counters and shoves King back across the ring to the corner, he takes King down and hits a big kick off the ropes. (28 words)
I'm the gullible one that shoves the wadded-up money in my pocket and tells the stranger that I trust them. (22 words)
Cassidy stomps on Sabian in the corner, gets backed off by the ref — he shoves the ref! (17 words)
Collar and elbow, King shoves him to the mat violently! (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
As the final seconds of the first period ticked off, Gophers and Buckeyes players traded pushes and shoves.
Back into the ring Knight goes up top but misses a flying nothing then Jimmy lands a Samoan drop for 2. Now Jimmy goes up top but Knight climbs up there with him and looks for a superplex, Jimmy shoves him down and hits a Splash for a near fall.
Cassidy stomps on Sabian in the corner, gets backed off by the ref — he shoves the ref!
Dominik takes too long on top though and Gable shoves him down, only to miss a top rope splash.
I'm the gullible one that shoves the wadded-up money in my pocket and tells the stranger that I trust them.
It works a little but Bill shoves him off again so Danielson tags out.
Knight moves the stairs to be by the announce table, then Bray shoves Knight over the barricade.
MJF heads over to the table and stops the ringing, then shoves a dude and takes his chair.
Moxley and Page fight over the wire, Page shoves it into Moxley’s forehead then boots Moxley down.
Rain is limited to the morning hours on Friday, as a cold front arrives and shoves wet weather off-shore.
After another break, they traded shoves before Stratton slapped Belair.
After Harris leaves, Ava shoves Stefan away.
Collar and elbow, King shoves him to the mat violently!
Headlock, Von shoves him off and runs him over.
He shoves Apollo inot the corner, misses a chop, Apollo hits his own, another, right, whip to Andrade.
Indi shoves Naomi into the barricade then sends her back into the ring.
King with the Coronation, Thorpe counters and shoves King back across the ring to the corner, he takes King down and hits a big kick off the ropes.
Mark shoves Miguel down to start as Booker makes sure Vic doesn’t say Joe Hendry’s name.
Punches in the corner, neck breaker attempted, but Edwards shoves him off.
Punk shoves Drew into the ring post and the crowd want tables.
Common combinations with shoves
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: