thrusting's Usage Examples:

although several commentators have noted the visual suggestiveness of the moistly cut fruits and melons and the writhing, thrusting marrows.

It essentially involved thrusting their rectums up into the air for inspection by the warders.

A wide variety of thrusting knives have been described.

At depths below the thickness of the lithosphere, earthquakes are no longer generated by thrusting at the interface of the two plates, because the asthenosphere is weak and cannot support the stresses necessary for faulting.

The uplift that brought the massifs to the surface involved thick skinned thrusting (the style of thrusting in which the basement is itself involved).

Unlike the pilum, verutum and lancea, the hasta was not thrown, but used for thrusting.

sexual activity typically involving the insertion and thrusting of the penis into the vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.

The stiletto was purely a thrusting or stabbing weapon, and the scherma di stiletto siciliano accordingly.

thrusting the City of Detroit and the Detroit River into Gold Cup hydroplane racing and making Detroit a major venue for the sport.

property has been known as Rocky Hill or Rock Hill, and the Fist (from the upthrusting chert rock boulders at its 540 ft.

weapon in cavalry charges, and was unsuited for throwing or for repeated thrusting, unlike similar weapons of the javelin and pike family typically used.

straighter blade facilitated a thrusting motion, as well as an overhead or sidewards hacking motion, the rhomphaia could be used by tightly packed troops as.

crayfish, allows crustaceans to escape predators through rapid abdominal flexions that produce powerful swimming strokes—thrusting the crustacean backwards.

Synonyms:

jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, jab, gesture,

Antonyms:

stand still, pull, boo,