Without passengers, they could have been given a much higher thrust.

His first task was to give the new group a strategic thrust.

The moment the door opened, he was given a violent thrust.

Some one gave it a thrust from the other side.

"And I love that sort of attention," she replied, giving him a playful thrust back.

"Give us a little vertical thrust to pull it out of the sillt."

Paul gave a final spasmodic thrust and pushed Jan away from him.

Cutting the deficit, according to this analysis, would bring down interest rates and give a thrust to business investment.

For I intend to give him such a thrust as he will dearly pay.

What we did was to give it a more modern and democratic thrust.