The late night broadcasts were a low budget law unto themselves, with reluctant professors thrust uncomfortably in front of the camera.

BBC: Patrick Moore to Brian Cox - A history of TV science

One day, not long after she had endured yet another session under the surgeon's knife, he took a mirror from her dressing table and thrust it in front of her face to reflect the livid scars and the bruising under her eyes.

CNN: Books - Excerpt: 'Flint'

Such scenes are the front lines of U.S.-based web consulting companies, thrust into global expansion by design--or by circumstances they couldn't control.

FORBES: Innocents Abroad

He grabbed an iron crowbar that was lying on the ballast and, with precise aim, thrust it between the spokes of one of the rapidly revolving front wheels.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

Mr Mitchell - whose job was to maintain discipline on the Conservative benches - was thrust into the spotlight when The Sun accused him in a front page story of calling police "plebs".

BBC: Andrew Mitchell

In its two recent series, especially against Pakistan, England played a brand of cricket from the days before DRS. The batsmen were repeatedly pinned on their crease, playing back in an attempt not to thrust their pads forward and pop a catch to a nearby fielder, but instead getting trapped in front of the stumps.

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