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third-person singular simple present justles, present participle justling, simple past and past participle justled
To jostle. quotations examples
The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways […]
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Nahum 2:4
[…] we justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.
1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 106, 13 July, 1713, in The Guardian, edited by Alexander Chalmers, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 2, p. 134
Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, page 759
When the bells justle in the towerThe hollow night amid,Then on my tongue the taste is sourOf all I ever did.
1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, section IX