- present participle of thrust.
thrusting
Example Sentences
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Ms. Paulus’s staging, set in period, wisely avoids thrusting the play ham-handedly into a contemporary context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
How quickly the brain and body react after tripping — with your foot automatically thrusting forward, for example, to prevent yourself from face-planting — is what plyometrics trains for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"The spacecraft is in great shape, and we're on schedule to resume sustained thrusting with the solar-electric propulsion system later this fall."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
That milestone was also recently hit by Samsung Electronics and US chipmaker Micron -- with AI thrusting the three memory chip firms into a previously exclusive club of around a dozen companies, nearly all American.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
She was a horse galloping across a plain, she was a mountain spring, she was a shoot thrusting through the earth, a red flower in the barley.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
