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How to use pushy in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Pushy means overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious. Example: “He was pushy, but he dialed that in until they found him tolerable.”

Examples of pushy by meaning

adjectiveOverly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.

  • Pushy parents 'ruin sports days'2005 June 24, BBC

More sentences with pushy

  • He was pushy, but he dialed that in until they found him tolerable.From the entry dial in
  • Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.From the entry aversion
  • The horse becomes “pushy and shovey” and does not respect the cowboy's space or authority.2012, Harold Kurstedt, Tim Thayne, Taking the Reins, page 56. From the entry shovey
  • The press (and plenty of others) call these women bossy, pushy, and opinionated, and the adjectives quickly get nastier from there.2016, Therese Huston, “The Decisiveness Dilemma”, in How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best…. From the entry likability
  • Spoiling may create a pushy, nippy dog that lacks confidence.1995, Nancy Baer, Choosing a Dog: A Guide to Picking the Perfect Breed, page 161. From the entry nippy
  • Some educators deny its existence entirely or say, with a roll of the eyes, that it is no more than a fantasy of pushy parents.2023 November 3, Angus Holland, “‘I don’t think of it at all as a gift’: Why it’s complicated being a gifted child”, in The Sydney Morning…. From the entry giftedness
  • LaBute’s plays strike me as the hairy beasts in this foursome; they’re alert, pushy works in which words are hurled like poison darts.2009 June 7, Dwight Garner, “Submitting to a Play’s Spell, Without the Stage”, in New York Times. From the entry wrigglingly
  • Wally Szalla was the least discomforting of men, nothing like the pushy arrogant guys I was always meeting, or who were always meeting me.2005, Joyce Carol Oates, Missing Mom, Ecco, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry kyle
  • We have to run that risk because the only people who eventually get their piece of the pie are those who uppity, pushy, and blatant.1984 August 18, Jim Ryan, “Pride — D.C. Style”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 5. From the entry squeaky wheels get oiled
  • Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian. From the entry front

Meaning of pushy

  1. adjective Overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.

Full definition of pushy

Questions about pushy in a sentence

How do you use pushy in a sentence?
Pushy is used as an adjective. For example: “He was pushy, but he dialed that in until they found him tolerable.”
What is a short sentence with pushy?
“Pushy parents 'ruin sports days'”
What does pushy mean?
Pushy means overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pushy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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