pushful

Example Sentences

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This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham."

From Time Magazine Archive

Servia and Greece have long watched the rapid and uninterrupted progress of their pushful neighbour with mixed feelings of fear and envy.

From Bulgaria by Fox, Frank, Sir

Everyone perceived that the young Capo della Repubblica was in full possession of the solid grit of his pushful grandfather.

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe

Wells, like the pushful tradesman he is, has the very thing in his pocket.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.

And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey