Examples of jostle

• Monkeys dislike being jostled, and they demand more elbow-room the higher their social rank.

• As for the outer movements of the quartet, they are jostling processions, the after necessarily rather different from the before.

• Alive with a tension between negative and positive space, these small abstract paintings are like plans of dense cities, where buildings jostle for room.

• Probably not one in twenty of the crowd that stood there jostling in the hot sunshine knew or cared what was taking place.

• There are also fissiparous tendencies in the north, with retired military men jostling for leadership with the present vice-president.

• Others were jostling for a chance of pulling the chariot, for this is deemed to be an act of religious merit.

• More important than this is the selection of poems, where often the good jostles the mediocre, and occasionally the mediocre is preferred for 'special study'.

• This stereotype of singers jostling for preeminence, though, should be considered in conjunction with the ephemeral quality of the interpreter's art.