Examples of pushy in a Sentence
he's usually very pushy about insinuating his own ideas into other people's projects
the pushy cocktail waiter kept asking me if I wanted another drink, even though I hadn't finished the first one
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If a tax strategist is pushy and has a financial incentive to push you into a strategy, that’s typically a red flag.
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Patrick Lonergan, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Dream sequences and fantasies, a talking thousand-dollar bill, and a series of jump cuts of pushy patrons in a diner echo a collective, endemic madness.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Over at the Ratliff suite, a pushy hotel staffer attempts to get the family to surrender their cell phones.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Then a nameless local 12-year-old arrives (the arresting Jade Croot), glomming onto their vibe, and the movie tips deliriously toward something pushy and tension-filled.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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Patrick Lonergan, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Dream sequences and fantasies, a talking thousand-dollar bill, and a series of jump cuts of pushy patrons in a diner echo a collective, endemic madness.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Over at the Ratliff suite, a pushy hotel staffer attempts to get the family to surrender their cell phones.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Then a nameless local 12-year-old arrives (the arresting Jade Croot), glomming onto their vibe, and the movie tips deliriously toward something pushy and tension-filled.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Pushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pushy. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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