Thrust

Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.

The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"

Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.

Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.

“The main thrust of it was that Britain is losing out, that Brexit it not delivering, our economy is in a weak position,” said the source.

As is normal for biopics, the movie takes liberties with the historical record, but the thrust of the narrative is not disputed.

We thrust at the enemy with our forces.

I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.

It is my earnest hope that the bitter lessons China has learned may prove instructive to countries and governments, and especially those in Asia which now face the same threat of Communism. Often it is not easy for most people to realize the presence of this threat in their midst, and by the time they do, it may already be too late to prevent its thrusting them behind the Iron Curtain at least for a time.

He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.

Towers thrusting skyward.

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument

Into a Dungeon thruſt, to work with Slaves?

And thrust between my father and the god.