(v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
(v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
Example Sentences:
(1) This isn’t so much the old push-and-run Spurs as push-and-run-and-snipe-and-hustle, albeit in a controlled kind of way.
(2) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
(3) "You regroup and start hustling again, but it's crucial that you believe in your own creative processes.
(4) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
(5) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
(6) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
(7) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
(8) Every mainland resident aspires to move to the island someday, which is why the Lagos Hustle will never stop.
(9) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
(10) Spike Jonze's Her joined American Hustle as one of the unexpected early frontrunners in the awards race after being named as best film of the year by the National Board of Review.
(11) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, was hustled away from Parliament Hill and was safe, a spokesperson confirmed .
(12) One cannot help but admire the bovine hustle with which the Labour party and most of the commentariat converged on the story that it had lost the election not because it had chosen the wrong Miliband, but because it had failed to address voters’ “aspirations”.
(13) Cooper was Oscar-nominated for his acting work on 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and last year’s American Hustle , both of which were directed by David O Russell.
(14) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
(15) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(16) Both American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave are expected to be among the nominees for the 2014 Oscars, which will be announced on 16 January.
(17) Similarly Henville, who has served prison time for drug offences, is shown trying to go straight (“I didn’t rob anyone or hustle anyone – I was just trying to be a young entrepreneur at the time,” he says of days as a dealer).
(18) Tony Jordan, who had a hand in several of the pivotal television dramas of the past 20 years, from EastEnders to Hustle and Life on Mars, is reminiscing over his formative years as a market-stall holder partly because he has just launched a competition to find new writers for his recently formed production company Red Planet.
(19) To get to the beach, they were hustled through a small gap in a fence that lined the sand.
(20) The Nativity has been a long-standing project for Jordan (Life on Mars, Hustle, EastEnders), who began researching it five years ago .
Stir
Definition:
(v. t.) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
(v. t.) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
(v. t.) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
(v. t.) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
(v. i.) To move; to change one's position.
(v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
(v. i.) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
(v. i.) To rise, or be up, in the morning.
(n.) The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
(n.) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
(n.) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(3) The apparent Km for K+-ATP was 2.1 mM when the incubation mixture was vigorously stirred, and the effect of stirring indicated that the kinetics of K+-ATP hydrolysis are limited by external diffusion.
(4) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(5) This modification facilitated a wider range of application of the Kedem-Katchalsky equations to systems in which the solutions were stirred or unstirred.
(6) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
(7) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
(8) Additionally, in 12 of 15 cases examined by Short-TI-IR (STIR) image, the trabecular structures and fluid collections in the subcutaneous tissue were shown more definitely in high signal intensity than by T2-weighted image.
(9) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(10) We examined the effect of ethylene glycol (EG) concentration, in water, on O2 sensitivity, stirring effect, in vitro drift, in vitro response time, behaviour on the skin of newborn infants and in vivo response time.
(11) Stirring of the sample induced a significant decrease of neutrophils (P less than 0.001) but no changes of red blood cell (RBC) and platelet count.
(12) There was no potentiation when A119 alone was pre-stirred or left standing for several days in the presence of divalent cations prior to use.
(13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(14) 3) After stirring for 1 and 5 minutes, there was a negative correlation (Spearmann's rank correlation coefficient test) between the pH values of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
(15) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
(16) And after stirring for 10 and 20 minutes, there was a negative correlation between the Ca concentrations of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
(17) Having stirred the viewer's emotional responsiveness, the art work provides a reliable "container" for the objectification of latent emotions.
(18) The inversion recovery sequence with short inversion time (STIR) will suppress signal from fat tissue and this is of particular value in differentiating dermoid from hemorrhagic cyst.
(19) At different intensities of medium stirring the lysins synthesizing activity was directly related to the activity of tricarboxylic acid cycle dehydrogenases.
(20) The experimental result of the quantitative determination of magnolol in Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis and its processed samples by HPLC has shown that the stir-fried sample has the highest content of magnolol among all sample and so does the ginger-fried sample among all ginger-processed samples.