pushes off
Example Sentences
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I wave goodbye as he pushes off like a cheery Einstein into a bizarre late-May mixture of rain and sleet — a scene as ordinary and apocalyptically surreal as his fiction, or America in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
They found that when a male pushes off its female partner, hydraulic pressure in front leg joints allows them to expand at lightning speed, launching the spider backward.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 25, 2022
It will be at least 12 to 18 months before he pitches again, and the longer he pushes off the operation, the longer you will be without him.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2020
Because it’s on his right leg, the knee causes his pain when he pushes off the rubber in his delivery.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
She pushes off from her toes a little too hard, which sends her tiny body sailing past a headstand and into a backflop onto the hard floor.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
