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How to use budge in a sentence

26 example sentences · verb, noun, adjective

Budge means to move; to be shifted from a fixed position. Example: “I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.”

Examples of budge by meaning

verbTo move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

  • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
  • Women still make only 83 percent of what men do in the U.S.—a stat that has barely budged in the past 20 years.2023 March 13, Naureen Khan, “Doug Emhoff Wants Men to Clear the Path for More Kamalas”, in Cosmopolitan

verbTo move; to shift from a fixed position.

  • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.

verbTo yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

  • The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
  • But he won't budge.1933, Richard Curle, Corruption, page 75

verbTo cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.

  • Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!

adjectiveAustere or stiff, like scholastics.

  • "My boy looked at me very budge," i.e., solemn.1931, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 684

More sentences with budge

  • In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.From the entry blockage
  • The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just wailing on it with a big old sledge hammer.From the entry wail on
  • The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just whaling on it with a big old sledge hammer.From the entry whale on
  • The bolt wouldn’t budge so she tried hammering it out.From the entry hammer out
  • “I’ll need pencils, preferably number twos,” I told Miss Rose, who, for some reason, had not budged.2015, Sheila Turnage, “Friday Night Miracle”, in The Odds of Getting Even, Kathy Dawson Books, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry number two
  • A person pushing on a heavy object is unable to budge it because of static friction.2006, Rusty L. Myers, The Basics of Physics, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry static friction
  • He singlehandedly played good-cop-bad-cop, refusing to budge while expressing sympathy for their plight.1999, The New York Times Biographical Service. From the entry good-cop-bad-cop
  • The man feinted but Gomez didn't budge; he was anxious to get it on.1984, Len Levinson, chapter 3, in Meat Grinder Hill (The Rat Bastards; 4), [San Francisco, Calif.]: AudioGO, published 2013, →ISBN. From the entry feint
  • The stick was rotten and broke, without having caused Cora to budge an inch.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 132. From the entry obduracy
  • NASA refused to budge from its position.2016, Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, Diana Baird N'Diaye, Curatorial Conversations. From the entry n-word
  • "He ain't gone budge." ¶ "Anybody budge for that fetti.2009, Al-Saadiq Banks, Back 2 Bizness: The Return of the Mayor, Newark, N.J.: True 2 Life Publications, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry fetti
  • The train won't budge, but the film that this scene opens, the Kafkaesque Romanian comedy "California Dreamin'," is off and running.2007 October 27, Jessica Au, “When Movies Follow The Storm”, in Newsweek, retrieved 16 Apr 2015. From the entry off and running
  • Try as I did, it wouldn't budge forward."1997, Arlena Collins Francis, Knott, My Beloved. From the entry take the studs
  • Budge huskily, and panted two or three times.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 28, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 292. From the entry nubile
  • The superintendent stated that he had tried it, or examined it, the day before and could not budge or feeze it.1904, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme court of the state of Kansas, page 511. From the entry feeze
  • She went face first into the back of a chair that didn't budge with the weight of the man sitting in it.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 32, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 164. From the entry face first
  • Mark does not seem to be suffering from any inner conflict, in that he is rock hard and will not budge from this position.2010, Richard House, Del Loewenthal, Childhood, Well-Being and Therapeutic Ethos, page 96. From the entry rock hard
  • Bogo de Clare’s esquires were bought three cloths of scarlet ray and three of yellow cloth, together with furs and hoods of budge (lambskin).1999, C. M. Woolgar, “The Senses, Religion and Intellectual Life”, in The Great Household in Late Medieval England, New Haven, Conn.: Yale…. From the entry bluet
  • We were accustomed to prompt, if not always cheerful acquiescence to Atticus’s instructions, but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry acquiescence

Meaning of budge

  1. verb To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
  2. verb To move; to shift from a fixed position.
  3. verb To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

Full definition of budge

Questions about budge in a sentence

How do you use budge in a sentence?
Budge is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.”
What is a short sentence with budge?
“But he won't budge.”
What does budge mean?
Budge means to move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

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