Read full poem →With no one near to mark,
Thrusting Hell's phantoms feebly in the dark,
And still at point more utterly to die.
Dictionary Entry
To make advance with force.
In a Sentence
“We thrust at the enemy with our forces.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. thrusting
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Poetry examples for “thrusting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A board out of plumb for a place out of plumb, for the hypocrite flashes
Of lightning or rods red hot for thrusting in tortuous places.
Well, this was your way, you lived out the genius God gave you.
Read full poem →The gilded phaloi of the crocuses
are thrusting at the spring air.
Here is there naught of dead gods
Read full poem →Flickering across its bosom. Suddenly
One helper, thrusting pitchfork in the ground,
Marched himself off the field and home. One stayed.
Read full poem →Of clumsy anger ... Crash! I'm through the fence
And thrusting wildly down the wood that's dense
With woven green of safety; paths that wind
Read full poem →Or if you will, thrusting me beneath your clothing,
Where I may feel the throbs of your heart or rest upon your hip,
Read full poem →that shall be your advent--
thrusting up through the grass,
up under the weeds