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Meanings of thrusting in English

Portuguese
injecção
Catalan
empenta
Spanish
amenazador

A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

        injecção
        Usage of thrusting in English
        1
        Women balk, thrusting their children behind them; some try again to escape.
        Those who save us
        2
        And alway it did search, thrusting in the eye-stalks among the boulders.
        The Night Land
        3
        They were a stupendous coronet thrusting miles deep into the dazzling sky.
        The Metal Monster
        4
        I said goodbye, thrusting out my stiffened arm in a regulation salute.
        The forgotten soldier
        5
        He never lifted the door-flap, but thrusting it aside entered slowly in.
        Old Indian Legends
        6
        He was like Medusa thrusting her head between two branches in Paradise.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        7
        Once more he was thrusting at her with the rapier of truth.
        The Lamp of Fate
        8
        He smiled, thrusting his hand into the breast of the velvet coat.
        Robert Elsmere
        9
        Finding the pikes useless for thrusting, many of the diggers clubbed them.
        In the Roaring Fifties
        10
        She nodded, as he pushed open the door, thrusting in his head.
        The Morgesons: A Novel
        11
        Teddy threw out his chest, thrusting both hands in his trousers pockets.
        The Circus Boys Across the Continent; Or, Winning New Laurels on...
        12
        Mr. Eltham drew a deep breath, thrusting both hands in his pockets.
        The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
        13
        I careered closer, thrusting my wings against warm air for extra speed.
        Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
        14
        Kris dived off the step, thrusting her arms in front of her.
        Night of the Living Dummy
        15
        The Disavowed lunged forward, thrusting and slashing to push back his fellows.
        Blood and Bone
        16
        Her rocking ceased, changing to a reverse thrusting to meet Adam's own.
        Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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        Translations for thrusting
        Portuguese
        injecção
        Thrusting through the time
        Thrusting across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Common