jostling

Examples

• All

• Baudelaire saw other men on the streets, figures who, in the midst of the noise and jostling, seemed wrapped up unhappily in themselves.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Runner had been patrolling the jostling market square and had caught a thief who had snatched a fish from the fishmonger's stall.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The crowd is starting to form, and after a little jostling, organizes itself into a long line.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The familiar jostling of the bus seems to heighten my exhilaration.

  Fiction book (1990)

• However, even modernist accounts of urban walking comment on noise, odors, and the jostling of the crowds.

  Academic text (2005)

• The physical jostling caused Marisol and Marcus to feel insecure and fearful.

  Academic text (1998)

• Rhonda tries to climb up, but the jostling and shuddering of the tower keep her dangling precariously.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The leather of the harness creaked with the jostling of the draft horse, and the hooves made a soft thumping on the dirt.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The concert was packed, and the jostling crowd made it hard to move forward.

• During the parade, there was a lot of jostling as people tried to get a better view.

Synonyms

J

jostle

vsjostling

1 4.8

A push or bump in a crowd to get past someone

is about the general action in crowds rather than one isolated push

E

elbowing

vsjostling

1 4.4

Pushing someone with the elbow to get ahead in a crowd

is broader, covering accidental or general pushing in crowds

How Forceful

collision

148 3.8

shove

31 2.7

jostling

4 3.6

bump

91 1.4

to touch

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology