jostle

The meeting is a fraught and delicate diplomatic process as countries jostle to protect their national interests, while also attempting to address the issue of climate change.

The girls did not rise up and jostle themselves into a happy, wriggling line to get their breakfasts, as Penelope remembered.

Now it lay in her lap, jostled back and forth with every lurch of the train.

They don’t jostle with airport crowds or idle unnecessarily in traffic.

Today, the creators of the Phoenix plan know that its fate is out of their hands, as competing interests, in the Middle East and beyond, jostle for control of Gaza's future.