CRUSHING in a Sentence

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205 example sentences for CRUSHING, such as:

1. Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
2. She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.
3. This synthetic dress material does not crush.
4. A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.
5. They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRUSHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crushing
 a.  physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
 n.  forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1  "The sooner the better," she said, hoping that perhaps he would release the crushing pressure on her rings before she had to ask him to do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She untied the waist tape and slipped it down over her feet, crushing the soft linen folds between her hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  One long column, half-burned, had fallen across the lawn, crushing the cape jessamine bushes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  This crushing news brought by Will, coming on top of a year of back-breaking work and hope deferred, was the last straw.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Seven times Congress had passed crushing acts against the state to keep it a conquered province, three times the army had set aside civil law.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
7  She had lost her dearest child but she could stand that, somehow, as she had stood other crushing losses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
8  These business men, from their crushing labors of sitting in an office seven hours a day, would calmly recommend that I have a dozen children.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
10  In the city there was a combination of employers, representing hundreds of millions of capital, and formed for the purpose of crushing the labor unions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
11  Nearly every one else in Packingtown did the same, however, for there was universal exultation over this triumph of popular government, this crushing defeat of an arrogant plutocrat by the power of the common people.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  He could feel the onward swing of the regiment about him and he conceived of a thunderous, crushing blow that would prostrate the resistance and spread consternation and amazement for miles.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
13  The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing the old carter's breast more and more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
14  The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and her child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
15  All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Since you left crushing the dream with, then I choose in perishing in addition.
2  His loss would be a crushing blow to Liverpool's title hopes.
3  A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.
4  From the government's side, the outgoing Prime Minister, Ivan Kostov, admitted personal responsibility for his party's crushing defeat.
5  When you know why you like someone, it's a crush.
6  Don't crush the box; it has flowers in it.
7  It concerned her that Bess was developing a crush on Max.
8  It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
9  They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
10  She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.
11  Don't crush this box; there are flowers inside.
12  This synthetic dress material does not crush.
13  There's particular concern over reports of human rights abuses, committed by the Indonesian security forces in Aceh as they try to crush the separatist movement there.
14  Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
15  His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition.